Fstab
From Linux & Open Source @ NUS
Tips for mounting an external reiserfs filesystem
Unlike when mounting other (namely vfat being the most common) filesystems, where a simple noauto,users,rw in /etc/fstab will allow the mounting user to have full read-write permissions to the mounted filesystem, the mounting of a reiserfs filesystem is not that easy.
I'd gotten pretty frustrated when my newly formatted reiserfs drive simply refused to let me write to it as a normal users, insisting that it was owned by root:root with file permissions 755. Now this was supremely irritating, as all other external filesystems that I've mounted before worked with the above options without a hitch, so why should reiserfs be any different.
That was until, out of desperation, I performed # chown ruiwen:users /path/to/filesystem. Then, it worked!
And then of course I realised the problem.
While filesystems like vfat simply have no concept of file permissions, *nix filesystems like reiserfs do. Therefore, in it's newly formatted (by root) state, the filesystem still reckoned it was owned by root and made it clear.
Of course, this would probably lead to the complication where multiple users need to mount and write to this particular filesystem. In this case, it should also be possible to set the group and user permissions appropriately, such that all users needing to write to the filesystem are in the same group.
