Arthur S. Alexion on Tue, 25 Jun 2002 23:08:12 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] fstab for mounting windows partitions


On Tuesday 25 June 2002 10:54 pm, Bill Jonas wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 10:28:35PM -0400, Arthur S. Alexion wrote:
> > /dev/hda1            /mnt/winboot            vfat    user,exec    
> >   0 0 /dev/hde1            /mnt/windata            vfat  
> >  user,exec       0 0 /dev/hde5            /mnt/winother          
> > vfat    user,exec       0 0
>
> ...
>
> > Is this the correct syntax for allowing ordinary users read/write
> > access?  If not, what is?
>
> I had a bear of a time trying to get that to work.  I wound up
> deciding it wasn't that important, but I was told sometime after that
> about the uid and gid flags.  I'd suggest creating a group (if a
> suitable one doesn't already exist) and adding users who need write
> access to the filesystem to this group.
>
> The 'user' parameter will allow any user to mount the filesystem
> (files will still be owned by root) and only that same user to umount
> it.  If you use 'users' instead, any user can mount and umount the
> filesystem.

If I use noauto and owner, and create icons on the desktop like I have 
for my floppy and zip drives, will the users who mount the file systems 
also be able to write to them?

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