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- From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
- Subject: Re: External Drive File Ownership Problem
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.134926.21484@csus.edu>
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- Reply-To: eps@cs.sfsu.edu
- Organization: San Francisco State University
- References: <BzH58v.4q5@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Dec19.011628.5712@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 13:49:26 GMT
- Lines: 31
-
- In article <1992Dec19.011628.5712@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- gcolello@biosphere.Stanford.EDU (Greg Colello) writes:
- >In article <BzH58v.4q5@news.cso.uiuc.edu> beaucham@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (James
- >Beauchamp) writes:
- >> We've added an external hard drive to our NeXT (OS 2.1) and it's working
- >fine
- >> except that whoever logs in on console owns all of the files under that
- >> disk's partition. The fix given in the Sys Adm manual refers to the
- >file
- >> /etc/fstab, but that won't work if we're running NetInfo.
-
- Of course it will--/etc/fstab is read *before* NetInfo starts.
- Put your local hard drives in /etc/fstab, and your NFS mounts
- in NetInfo.
-
- [/etc/fstab]
- /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
- /dev/sd1a /External 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2
-
- This will cause the external disk to be properly mounted at boot
- time, and the automounter will leave it alone.
-
- >same problems as you. We had to add to our /etc/mtab file the following
-
- No! No! No! /etc/mtab is maintained by the mount(8) utility to
- parallel the kernel's mount state. You should not ever be
- editing this file. (And if you really do need to add something
- to /etc/mtab--and I doubt you ever will--the correct way is to
- use mount -f)
-
- -=EPS=-
-