Re: problem with chmod

On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Thorny wrote:


sudo mkdir /debian_home /data #will create the directories (folders) in
your filesystem, this is required for mounting, the mount points have to
be there.

sudo mount -a #will then mount all the mount points in your fstab that
are correctly configured and that do not have the noauto option. You will
have the permissions you specify.


If I use
mkdir /debian_home /data
, will that not create sub-directories within my home directory, rather
than the partitions being mounted as partitions?

From what I understand, the partitions, being partitions, would need to,
if I need to use mkdir to create mountpoints for them, be set up as
mkdir /mnt/debian_home /mnt/data .

Is that wrong?

Oh, and, with the actions that I have gone through, in trying to deal
with this, I have activated the root account, so that, whilst Ubuntu
has some deviations from what I understand to be Linux standards (eg,
using UUID's rather than device paths, in fstab), I can now use the root
account for system maintenance, rather than sudo (which I really do not
like, and regard as a security risk), which makes the system a bit more
consistent with what I understand to be standard Linux.

--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............

"So once you do know what the question actually is,
you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
A Trilogy In Four Parts",
written by Douglas Adams,
published by Pan Books, 1992

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