[lug] Permissions in FSTAB

Orion Poplawski orion at cora.nwra.com
Fri Dec 7 11:29:12 MST 2012


On 12/07/2012 11:24 AM, Ryan Newby wrote:
> Can someone point me in the right direction on correctly setting permissions
> on partitions via fstab?
>
> Running Ubuntu Server 12.04 on XenServer 6
>
> Trying to set the following permissions:
>
> / ro
> /var noexec,nosetuid
> /home nosetuid
> /tmp noexec,nosetuid
> /opt ro,nosetuid
>
> # I attempted to follow documentation via
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab with no avail,.
> Testing with /home and the configuration below, I receive an error after
> rebooting "11.289552] EXT3-fs (xvda5): error: unrecognized mount option
> "nosetuid" or missing value"
>
> UUID=3a009b73-fd44-4829-b86a-fee8b383f517 /home       ext3    nosetuid
>           0       2
>
>
> #Current config:
>
>   <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
> proc            /proc           proc    nodev,noexec,nosuid 0       0
                                                        ^^^^^^
The option name is "nosuid".



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