[SOLVED] Mout partition without root PW

[phileas]

Hello,
yesterday I installed for the first time Linux Mint 13 on a HP notebook 655 which came with SLED 11 SP2. It has a FAT 32 Partition with the HP tools and the SLED recovery image, one where Linux mint 13 is installed, and one big partition with 460 GB free and swap of course. I would like to use the big one for saving my files.

On the computer I have 2 accounts. One for me and one for my brother. My account was the first account I created, and I can mount the big partition. The account of my brother was created later. The problem is, that from this account I can't mount the big partition without the root password. Once I give the root password the partition is mounted and works very well.

I want to have the partition mounted from both accounts without giving a root PW, and then to create two folders on that, one for me and one for my brother and to configure the rights, that the one can't open the folder of the other.

How can I do that?

Thanks

[altair4]

Please post the output of this command:

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sudo parted -l

That last character is a lower case "L".

And the output of this command:

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sudo blkid -c /dev/null

[phileas]

Hier is one

sudo parted -l

Model: ATA ST9500325AS (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 10,7GB 10,7GB primary fat32 diag
2 10,7GB 12,9GB 2147MB primary linux-swap(v1)
3 12,9GB 39,7GB 26,8GB primary ext4 boot
4 39,7GB 500GB 460GB primary ext3

and here the other

sudo blkid -c /dev/null
/dev/sda1: LABEL="HP_TOOLS" UUID="829E-9FD1" TYPE="vfat"
/dev/sda2: UUID="dd0c3093-613e-4164-89ce-528481532877" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sda3: UUID="bdc2f9a8-09b1-4b82-9110-b07a019af82a" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda4: UUID="73147129-873e-4845-acb6-c7378e0ac6e5" TYPE="ext3"

Thanks

[altair4]

This is what I would do to fulfill what I think are your requirements:

[1] Have the 500gb partition automount on startup:

** Create a mount point:

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sudo mkdir /media/Data

** Then edit fstab as root:

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gksu gedit /etc/fstab

** And add the following line to the end of the file:

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UUID=73147129-873e-4845-acb6-c7378e0ac6e5 /media/Data ext3 defaults,noatime 0 2

** Run the following command to mount the partition:

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sudo mount -a

[2] Create 2 sub directories and make it available only to that user.

For example:

Create a folder for yourself:

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sudo mkdir /media/Data/phileas

Change ownership to you:

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sudo chown phileas /media/Data/phileas

Change permissions to allow access only to you:

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sudo chmod 0700 /media/Data/phileas

Only Phileas has access to that folder.

[phileas]

Thanx, it worked, but I had to install gedit.