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Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 16:21:21 +0100
From: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de>
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Subject: Re: Ext2/3 uid/gid support
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On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Erik Meusel wrote:

> The reason why I ask is, I have two linux stations and I want to use ext2
> for the floppy disks to save space for fat vfat and so on. Now it would
> be nice to automatically mount my floppies with group "floppy", so that
> all the users, belonging to group "floppy", can read/write from/to disk.

Please read your mount and fstab man pages. Look for the "user" option.
BTW, these uid/gid options would not help you any further, as has been
said, because mount is always a privileged operation.

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Matthias Andree
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