At Sun, 16 Jan 2011 14:20:40 +0530 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > 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? The ownership of the mount point is irelevant and has no effect on the ownership of the mounted file system. You need to change the ownership of the *file system* root directory itself. Mount the ext3 filesystem and *then* change the owner and group. Of course, whatever you set it to will be whatever it is on any other Linux system the volumn is mounted on. > > Thanks, > > Manish > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 / heller at deepsoft.com Deepwoods Software -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments