Re: Mount point permissions

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 22 Dec 2001 15:16:24 +0000 (GMT)

> dwarf:~# ls -ld /tmp
> drwxrwxrwt 8 root root 336 Dez 22 14:55 /tmp
> dwarf:~# mount /dev/RAID0VOL/TEMP /tmp
> dwarf:~# ls -ld /tmp
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 Dez 22 14:45 /tmp
>
> Shouldn't mount preserve original mountpoint permissions ?

It does. If you umount it you will get them back. mount replaced "/tmp"
with the root inode of your new volume, hence the change. Fix the root
inode of the new fs and all will be happy
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