Setting uid and gid for reserved blocks on ext3 [SOLVED]

selig · Last edited by selig on Wed Apr 16, 2008 12:30 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hello, I'm having a tiny problem... so far I have not needed this, but now it would be quite handy: I want to set some user and/or some group to be able to use the reserved file system blocks in ext3. I set it via tune2fs -u xxx -g yyy, but the user still cannot write to a "full" file system and use the reserved blocks. Only root can still do that. Do I have to remount the partition or is there some other trick?
Thanks a lot!

BradN · Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 3:05 pm Post subject:

Try the resgid= and resuid= mount options (via -o or in fstab)

good luck

selig · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 12:30 pm Post subject:

Works perfectly, thank you very much! It can even be modified on-the-fly with -o remount