Re: External Drive File Ownership Problem

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From: Greg Colello
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 01:16

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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. So what do we  
do to
> get this to mount correctly?  I hope there is an easy way!
> 
> Jim Beauchamp

When we got our CubeRoute 1GB hard drive, it was automounting. We had the  
same problems as you. We had to add to our /etc/mtab file the following  
line:

/dev/sd1a "/CubeRouteHardDrive" 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2

sd1a is the CubeRoute drive (as an external drive). sd0a was our NeXTcube  
internal 330MB hard drive (as the boot drive).

I don't really understand the options used for the sd1a drive , but I got  
them from the CubeRoute guy. Without this entry in /etc/mtab the external  
drive will automount as you described.

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Greg Colello
Carnegie Institution, Department of Plant Biology
Stanford University
gcolello@biosphere.stanford.edu (NeXT mail OK)

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