permission denied for the new partition to non-root user

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mushtaq
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permission denied for the new partition to non-root user

Post by mushtaq »

Asalamualikum,

i have created a new fixed disk partition via file system via fdisk / and formatted via mke2fs -j all works fine with root user able to write but non-root user gets permission denied

OS : RHEL 5

any help please


thanks in advance.

regards
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Post by syedbilalmasaud »

please copy and past the output of mount command regarding that partition and have you double checked permissions for files ?
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Post by lambda »

normal users cannot directly access hardware devices. that is why you have to be root to do that.
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