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How can I prevent a standard account to mount a specific partition?

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I have a root account from which I do all of my tasks. I set up my partitions to mount at startup. I have also created an account for my younger brother. I do not want him to access specific partitions, while still having access to others.

I have:

sda5

sda6

sda7

I want to block access to sda5 but want to give him permission to access the other sda partitions. How can I do that?

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answered 3 Years ago attagjump · Accepted Answer

Thanks for the help guys. Both the answers helped me find out what I need to do. Here's what I have done.

My other sda are ntfs file system so I cannot directly change permission. So I have to mount it in a folder to which only I have access.

I make a folder in /media named secret with terminal

cd /media

sudo mkdir -p secret

Then I change ownership of this folder with chown command.

sudo chown XXXX:XXXX /media/secret

Where XXXX in my user name. Then I changed permission to that folder so that only I can access.

sudo chmod 700 /media/secret

Then I had to edit /etc/fstab for appropriate mounting point of sda5.

gksudo gedit /etc/fstab

Then add

/dev/sda5        /media/secret  ntfs defaults           0  0

at the end and saved it. Then reboot.

Viola! It worked.