[CentOS] rsync and users

Ow Mun Heng

Ow.Mun.Heng at wdc.com
Thu Jan 25 02:05:36 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 16:30 -0800, Benjamin Smith wrote:
> I've used rsync to backup lots of data from a web server at an ISP. I want to 
> make it available read-only to certain staff via SMB, but ran into posix 
> permissions problems. Is there a way to simultaneously mount a partition 
> without ownership properties, EG: as if it were a FAT partition?

What about monting it as read-all of all users?? You can specify a umask
during mounting.

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> Also, if you mount the same filesystem twice, is there any problem with that? 

sure.. NOt an issue. 




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