strange issue with partitions made through gparted

[BluSky]

Hi all, I am having a strange issue trying to partition drives using gparted.

I am trying to partition a drive into 2 ext3 partitions, so nothing special. Gparted creates the partitions perfectly, the trouble is it makes it so that the owner of any partition it makes is root and all other users have read only access. This means that I cannot copy any files to the partitions or perform any other write operations without doing them through the terminal as root.... quite annoying.

I have been dealing with it by running chown from a terminal after the partition is created but I would like to know how to stop it making the partitions read only in the first place. Is there a way to specify permissions?

Thanks

 

[101001101]

Why dont you just use fdisk and then create a single volume group followed by two LVMs for your partitions???

 

[inSilica]

Hi all, I am having a strange issue trying to partition drives using gparted.

I am trying to partition a drive into 2 ext3 partitions, so nothing special. Gparted creates the partitions perfectly, the trouble is it makes it so that the owner of any partition it makes is root and all other users have read only access. This means that I cannot copy any files to the partitions or perform any other write operations without doing them through the terminal as root.... quite annoying.

I have been dealing with it by running chown from a terminal after the partition is created but I would like to know how to stop it making the partitions read only in the first place. Is there a way to specify permissions?

Thanks

What you're doing is fine.

If you're using fstab just add

nouser

e.g.

/dev/sda1    /media/myext3partition    ext3    rw,auto,nouser,async    0    0

HTH