Mounting a Partition +++++++++++++++++++++++ :Posted: 2007-05-05 18:24 :Tags: Debian I wanted to have a partition which could be mounted, read and written to by the user ``james``. When I've mounted other filesystems in the past I've simply been able to specify a ``gid`` in ``/etc/fstab`` but I realised today that different filesystems have different options and ``gid`` isn't supported by the ext3 filesystem. Instead I had to add this line:: /dev/hdd4 /home/james/files ext3 defaults,users 0 0 and then as root after mounting the partition run:: chown -R james /home/james/files This way all the files had the correct permissions and everything worked fine. All the options for different filesystem are described towards the end of:: man mount `This fstab guide `_ explains some of the other options available.