mount fstab

[Paul Howarth]

jim lawrence wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 17:19:15 +0000, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
>>VFAT has no concept of who owns files, so you can't chown them. You need
>>to specify who the owner should be at mount time, so try adding the
>>options uid=jim,gid=jim to your fstab entry for this filesystem.
>>
>>Next time you mount it, you should then be the owner of the files.
> 
> So this should do.....?
> /dev/hda5 /home/jim/windrive     vfat  defaults,rw,nodev,uid=jim,gid=jim,noexec 0 0

Get rid of the "defaults"; it's only there as a placeholder for when 
you're not specifying any other options, such as 
"rw,nodev,uid=jim,gid=jim,noexec".

Paul.