<div dir="ltr">I have the mount point permissions set to mythtv for user and group. But when the partition gets mounted it goes to the mystery user:group.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Joseph Fry <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joe@thefrys.com" target="_blank">joe@thefrys.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">> My backend died a week ago and I have been trying to get a new one up and<br>
> running. I think I have everything working only I can't write to the storage<br>
> directory.<br>
><br>
> I am using mythbuntu 12.04 from a clean install.<br>
><br>
> The problem is I can't figure out how to get my storage partition to mount<br>
> at boot time with the proper permissions. If I set it so it's user:group are<br>
> mythtv:mythtv are set in fstab booting hangs and asks if you want to skip or<br>
> fix the problem.<br>
><br>
> I have spent the better part of half a day on this (I know this is bad)<br>
> googling and rebooting (good thing I'm using ssd) without success.<br>
><br>
> Unfortunately since I was having so much trouble I tried using<br>
> a gui program "Storage Device Manager" which I think is called PySDM. This<br>
> worked but it set the partition to some weird user and group names that I<br>
> can't recall now ( I am at work). Now, for the life of my, I can't figure<br>
> out how to prevent the drive from mount with this user:group. The following<br>
> are the pertinent lines for my fstab file. Now, I can't even boot my system<br>
> because I deleted my fstab file and rebooted thinking that it would get<br>
> replaced with a default one. I can really screw thins up!<br>
><br>
> /dev/sdb1 /var/lib/mythtv/Recordings1 xfs users,user 0 0<br>
> /dev/sdb2 /var/lib/mythtv/Recordings2 xfs users,user 0 0<br>
> /dev/sdc1 /var/lib/mythtv/Videos1 xfs users,user 0 0<br>
> /dev/sdc2 /var/lib/mythtv/Recordings3 xfs users,user 0 0<br>
><br>
> Could this be related to the fact that these folders directly mount<br>
> partitions? I don't see how this entry assigns the user:group I previously<br>
> mentioned.<br>
><br>
> So, how do you mount a partition at boot with a non-root user:group<br>
> ownership? Sorry for the wordy email and if it isn't completely<br>
> understandable but I am getting desperate.<br>
<br>
</div></div>Umm.. are you just mounting a local drive? Then you just need to set<br>
the permissions on the mount point.<br>
<br>
Once it's mounted, you may need to reset ownership on the files with<br>
chown if your UID's and GID's are different than they were before.<br>
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