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Re: [PLUG] Mounting vfat partition as rw?
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On 16 Jan 2001 23:40:12 -0500, Bill Jonas wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 11:08:21PM -0500, Michael Leone wrote:
> > But that didn't work. I have no permission to write as anything but
> > root.
> ...
> > I know that FAT style partitions don't support permissions.
> >
> > I know it's something simple. But what?
>
> Root owns all the files because he's the one who mounted it.
>
> Try adding 'users' to the options part of the fstab.
No change. And I can't mount as a normal user - says only root can do
that.
I've tried the "noauto,users,rw" options. Singly and in different
combinations. And I still can't write a file to that partition as a
normal user.
>
> ...Come to think of it, that might not solve your problem fully. Root
> would probably still mount it when the system comes up, necessitating your
> unmounting it as root, then re-mounting it as a user...
Can't mount as anything but root.
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