[CentOS] Mount Point Ownership & Group

[nux at li.nux.ro]

Manish Kathuria writes:

> I am facing problems assigning the owner and group to an ext3
> filesystem being mounted from an external storage. I created a mount
> point /vol and changed its owner and group  to alpha and beta
> respectively (as required). The ext3 filesystem (LV from the external
> storage) was then mounted on /vol using the mount command. However,
> after mounting the filesystem the owner and group of /vol changed back
> to root.
> 
> How do I ensure that the owner and group for this (and other) external
> filesystem to be mounted dynamically are preserved as required ? The
> mount options uid and gid don't seem to work for ext3 filesystems. Are
> there any other options for this purpose?

Try to run chown also after you have mounted the filesystem. That should 
solve it.

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