user's home partition mounting and fstab help needed please

[ToFue]

Hi- I have three ext4 partitions that I want 'assigned' to three users as follows:

/dev/sda6 /home/karlos
/dev/sda7 /home/dominic
/dev/sda8 /home/jade

I can mount them fine with terminal, but I'm not too familiar with fstab and they don't mount when booting..
However, when mounted I don't want them showing up as an obvious mount in 'places' or nautilus, but to just *be* the directories...

I thought it may have been a permission issue so I did (sudo chown <user> /dev/sda*)

Here's what I have so far:

Code:
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# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'vol_id --uuid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#

# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

# / was on /dev/sda3 during installation
UUID=08e97966-a66c-4fca-9101-5ac994867e3b / ext4 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1

# /home was on /dev/sda2 during installation
UUID=33897224-0e6e-45ad-a342-f59eb19e35c9 /home ext4 relatime 0 2

# /home/karlos for user karlos on /dev/sda6
UUID=00bb64a1-cc06-45fa-9783-130d3c51de90 /home/karlos ext4 relatime, auto, uid=1001, gid=1001 0 2

# /home/dominic for user dominic on /dev/sda7
UUID=1ee933d2-19fa-4547-ab19-0a8f17134827 /home/dominic ext4 relatime, auto, uid=1002, gid=1002 0 2

# /home/jade for user jade on /dev/sda8
UUID=1855544c-e929-44db-82f3-ce8e0ae8b822 /home/jade ext4 relatime, auto, uid=1003, gid=1003 0 2

# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=0bca2a4c-f0b6-49ab-b9b3-a767ec06e6ea none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0

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... and this:


Code:
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tofue()familytoybox:~$ sudo ls /dev/disk/by-uuid -lah
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 180 2009-08-03 22:57 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 120 2009-08-03 22:57 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-08-03 22:57 00bb64a1-cc06-45fa-9783-130d3c51de90 -> ../../sda6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-08-03 22:57 08e97966-a66c-4fca-9101-5ac994867e3b -> ../../sda3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-08-03 22:57 0bca2a4c-f0b6-49ab-b9b3-a767ec06e6ea -> ../../sda5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-08-03 22:57 1855544c-e929-44db-82f3-ce8e0ae8b822 -> ../../sda8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-08-03 22:57 1ee933d2-19fa-4547-ab19-0a8f17134827 -> ../../sda7
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-08-03 22:57 33897224-0e6e-45ad-a342-f59eb19e35c9 -> ../../sda2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-08-03 22:57 64D7-8F2F -> ../../sdb1

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I have read the fstab wiki but it isn't clear on how to treat user-specific mounts w/ ext4 like I'm trying to do.. It does mention not assigning a uid or gid for ext2,3 and I have tried omitting without success either..

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance!

[Cabhan]

In your fstab, you separated your options by comma-space. Don't do this: just separate by commas. So for instance, the entry for /home/karlos should be:

UUID=00bb64a1-cc06-45fa-9783-130d3c51de90 /home/karlos ext4 realtime,auto,uid=1001,gid=1001 0 2

You say you can mount them via terminal: do this, and then run the command "mount" (or cat the file /etc/mtab). This will give you an fstab line that describes the present condition of each mounted partition. You can copy this line into your fstab and modify at will.

[ToFue]

That's incredibly simple- Thank you so much!
This problem has now been solved, and each user won't invade the space of the other with media files anymore!

[thinkfree]

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