[KLUG Members] fat in fstab-resolved

Buist Justin members@kalamazoolinux.org
Fri, 12 Jul 2002 10:47:28 -0400


Place 'umask=000' in your options for the vfat partition.  That should allow -any- user.  You could also specify a uid= or gid= to limit it to a specific user/group combination.  Most people are happy with just opening it up to all users it seems though.

Justin


> -----Original Message-----
> From: randy perry [mailto:randallp@domain-logic.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 11:30 AM
> To: leaplist@lists.leap-cf.org
> Cc: members@kalamazoolinux.org
> Subject: [KLUG Members] fat in fstab-resolved
> 
> 
> I just had to use the vfat type and it took. (no need to 
> rebuild yet..)
> I don't want to have to be root to write back to the drive, 
> though.     
>  Here is my fstab...
> 
> LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    
> defaults       
> 1 1
> none                    /dev/pts                devpts  
> gid=5,mode=620 
> 0 0
> none                    /proc                   proc    
> defaults       
> 0 0
> none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   
> defaults       
> 0 0
> /dev/hda5               swap                    swap    
> defaults       
> 0 0
> /dev/hda2		/c:			vfat	user,rw	0 0
> /dev/hda6		/d:			vfat	user,rw	0 0
> /dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              iso9660
> noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
> 
> Sorry that my lines are wrapped.  I can't find the setting in 
> evolution
> to change that either.
> 
> Randall Perry
> www.domain-logic.com
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