[brlug-general] Best way to use hdb1?

[Joe Fruchey]

Nice. Thanks for the info.

On 3/27/07, willhill <williamhill2 at cox.net> wrote:
>
> I like ext3.
>
> If you really want to share this big new drive, just mount it as
> /home.  You
> can take the old home and make it your own private storage, after you copy
> everyone's home directory to the new drive.
>
> If you want a place where people can all read and write the same files,
> you
> might look into groups and premissions, like this:
>
> http://aplawrence.com/Basics/perms.html
>
> "The "s" bit on the group set of a directory (e.g. rwxr-srx) causes new
> files
> created in that directory to have the same group ownership as the
> directory
> rather than the group id of the user or process creating the file."
>
> So you make your friends members of various project groups and give each
> project that group ownership.
>
> On the other hand, you might just want the archive for yourself.  Here's
> how I
> did that for a nice little scsi drive:
>
> willhill at hesiod:~$ cat /etc/fstab
> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> #
> # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
> proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
> /dev/hda1       /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0
> 1
> /dev/sda1       /usr            ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0
> 1
> /dev/hda3       /home           ext3    defaults        0       2
> /dev/sda2       /home/willhill/fast     ext3    defaults 0      2
> /dev/hda2       none            swap    sw              0       0
> /dev/hdc        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0
> willhill at hesiod:~$ df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda1             2.8G  2.3G  369M  87% /
> udev                  253M  104K  253M   1% /dev
> devshm                253M     0  253M   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/sda1             3.7G  1.7G  1.8G  49% /usr
> /dev/hda3              16G   11G  4.0G  73% /home
> /dev/sda2              14G  8.3G  4.2G  67% /home/willhill/fast
>
> The directory /home/willhill/fast is owned by willhill and so is sda2 when
> the
> system mounts it.
>
> On Monday 26 March 2007 1:46 pm, Joe Fruchey wrote:
> > This is the first time I've ever dabbled with multiple drives in Linux,
> and
> > I don't know what to do. Where should I mount it? If I mount it as a
> > subdirectory of my home, then it's mine. What if someone else wants to
> use
> > it? I thought about something like /var/storage, and I did that, but
> then I
> > had permission problems (because root mounted it, so root owned it). If
> I
> > tried to 777 it, it only went to 755. I couldn't chown or chgrp it
> either.
> > I thought reformatting the drive as vfat might solve the permission
> issues,
> > but it did not.
> >
> > sudo chown joe /var/storage
> > operation not permitted.
> >
> > sudo chown joe ~/hdb1
> > operation not permitted.
> >
> > So what do I do? What filesystem should I use?
> >
> > And yes, for future use, I'll throw an entry in fstab, I was just using
> > mount for now.
>
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