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Re: [PLUG] Mounting vfat partition as rw?
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Just wanted to make sure that this horse was thourghly dead...
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 11:52:11PM -0500, 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.
As qumak pointed out, the correct option is "user", not "users".
>
> > ...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...
Use the "noauto" option, or use "uid=#" and "gid=##" where # and ##
are the user id and group id numbers (not text names) that the device
should be mounted by. "umask=" is also nice.
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