[KLUG Members] RedHat 7.3 review and question

[Buist Justin]

In your /etc/fstab, the column that most likely says 'defaults' right now you should replace with:

umask=000

Which will set all permissions to 777 on the mounted drive.  If you want more control you can use:
uid=<your common user id>, gid=<your common group id> for a bit more security and leave out the umask option.

Hope that helps,

Justin Buist
Granite Solutions


-----Original Message-----
From: Rusty Yonkers [mailto:therustycook@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 6:36 PM
To: members@kalamazoolinux.org
Subject: [KLUG Members] RedHat 7.3 review and question


Ok ... first the question.... 

I wiped out my Mandrake 8.2 installation that I was
trying so that I could install RedHat 7.3.  I forgot
to record the listings in fstab for mounting my fat32
partition (this was the incredible settings that
worked like really well).  I cannot remember what they
were.  I can get the system to mount the partition but
the partition is owned by root and the permissions are
setup for 755.  Now when I am logged in as myself I
can read the drive but not write to it.  This is a
major bummer.  Sometimes I feel so clueless.  I know
that there is something that I can set in the listing
in fstab so that I can get it to mount so that I can
use it but cannot find out what it is.  I tried to
chmod the partition but that does not change anything
(I did not really think it would).