Re: [PLUG] Mounting vfat partition as rw?

[Michael Leone <turgon@mike-leone.com>]

On 17 Jan 2001 15:57:59 -0500, LeRoy Cressy wrote:
> You need to change users to user in the /etc/fstab file.

Ok. That may just have been a typo in my email, tho.


> Also,  Do you want the partition to be mounted at boot or do you want
> users to be able to mount the partition?

At boot.

> 
> If you want the partition mounted at boot time rw is OK in the
> /etc/fstab.

Thought I'd tried it that way, and had no luck, but I'll try it again
with "user".


> 
> Check the mount point permissions and make sure it looks like rwxrwxrwx

There are. I thought of that, so I umounted (as root), and then did a
chmod 755 on the mount point.

:-)

Didn't help.

:-(

> if you want everone on your system to be able to write to the
> partition.  It is very dangerous to allow everyone to write to a whole
> partition.  It might be useful to set up a group that is authorized to
> write to the partition.
> 
> Michael Leone wrote:
> > 
> > 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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