Mounting Partition Inside /home?

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One member was asking long time ago on how to mount a partition inside the home directory.
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3107671.0

Suppose you have two drives, one having three partitions, "/", "/home" & "swap". The other drive has two other partitions.

If I want to mount one of those partitions as my "Video" folder in "/home", I should mount that partition during installation for example as "/home/username/Video".

After successfully being able to mount it, I discovered that I need root privileges to be able to write to it.
Tried to play with the "fstab" with no avail. Any ideas how to mount it under "/home" & be able to write to it as if it was any other folder inside "/home" ?

[wizard10000]

Re: Mounting Partition Inside /home?

If you mounted it successfully all you need to do is grant permissions to write to it - here's a pretty good readme on fstab -

http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html

Hope this helps -

[ichaos]

Re: Mounting Partition Inside /home?

You could do it by taking possession of the directory with chown.

[muzicman0]

Re: Mounting Partition Inside /home?

You could do it by taking possession of the directory with chown.

That's what I did when I was mounting partitions in the home drive.

After a while, I ended up just making symlinks to the partition inside the home directory instead.

mm0

[kubicle]

Re: Mounting Partition Inside /home?

For linux native (POSIX) filesystems (ext, xfs, jfs,...) use chown to change ownerships (or chmod to change permissions)...for non-native filesystems (fat, ntfs) you have to define ownerships/permissions when mounting (via /etc/fstab)

[dibl]

Re: Mounting Partition Inside /home?

I ended up just making symlinks to the partition inside the home directory instead.

That's what I do, too. It seems best to let the drives and partitions be owned by root. Make a directory (folder) on the partition, chown it to the user, and symlink it into the user's /home/user folder. That keeps the chaos to a minimum.