external USB Drive
Kevin Waterson
kevin at oceania.net
Mon Jul 4 23:50:23 UTC 2005
This one time, at band camp, Jim Cornette <fc-cornette at insight.rr.com> wrote:
> If you are plugging in the USB drive after you are in the GUI, it will
> inherit the GUI user. (console user). If you want to make the VFAT
> readable by other than the user you need to pick a mountpoint and use
> umask settings in the config file where the drive is mounted. You can
> select users for everybody to be able to access it. The other
> permissions are set when you plug in the USB drive by programs included
> with Fedora to mount drives. chmodding even as root is not a function.
I have the the USB drive (250gig) plugged in when booting.
I then mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/windows-g
The drive is formatted fat32.
How can I use umask in a config file to change this?
Kind regards
Kevin
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