Jesse Schultz on Wed, 26 Jun 2002 12:39:20 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] fstab for mounting windows partitions


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Arthur S. Alexion wrote:
| My current /etc/fstab is something like
|
| 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/hde4      swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
| /dev/cdrom    /mnt/cdrom              iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
| /dev/hdc4        /mnt/zip100.0           auto    noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
| /dev/fd0          /mnt/floppy             auto    noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
|
| I added the lines
|
| /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
|
| in order to mount my windows file systems at boot up.
|
| Is this the correct syntax for allowing ordinary users read/write
| access?  If not, what is?  I could find no explanation of the kudzu
| option in the man pages for mount(8) nor fstab.  Does anyone know what
| it does?
|
|

I use:
/dev/hda1
	/dos			vfat	umask=000    0 0

The umask is a vfat specific option.  Just do the opposite of the
desired mode.  In this case, a living dangerously 777

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