fstab make writeable by all

[UrbanNightmare]

Hello all. I've been searching all over for this but can't find it. What I want to do is mount my external firewire harddrive so that it is writeable by any user. Currently its being mounted as root:root and has permissions of rwxr-xr-x and this is my fstab line so far.

/dev/sda1 /mnt/external ext3 noauto,exec,suid,rw,users 1 0

Thanks for any help

Urban

[RlC]

add "gid=disk" and add the users that should have access on it to "disk" in /etc/group

[UrbanNightmare]

I now have a group called disk and added gid=disk to the fstab line.

/dev/sda1 /mnt/external ext3 gid=disk,noauto,exec,suid,rw,users 1 0

Its giving me this error now.

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,
or too many mounted file systems

I tried a couple of other groups and got the same error. I've also tried a uid={my login name} and same error.

I'm running a udev 2.6.11 kernel if that emerged from gentoo if that makes any difference.

Urban

[RlC]

[neuron]

if it's ext3, skip the uid/gid and chmod/chown stuff on the disk/directory you mount it.

[UrbanNightmare]

And with that everything works fine.

Thanks for your help

Urban