Re: [SLE] setting mount permissions

Glad to see you have a sense of humor. Nothing like a vague, ambiguous answer so early in the morning. The problem is, you can't change permissions of a mounted mount point. The command will error with "busy". The original question was how to get it to mount with the permissions I specified. It is absolutely NO help to tell me how obvious the answer should be rather than simply telling me the answer. John Alexandr.Malusek@imv.liu.se wrote:

John Scott writes:

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I'm trying to set permissions for /tmp. The dir permissions are 1777. When I mount it with mount -t ext3 /dev/hda5 /tmp the permissions change to 0755.

Permissions of the root directory of the mounted file system take precedence over the permissions of the mount point. The fix should be obvious now.

-- Alexandr.Malusek@imv.liu.se

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