external USB Drive

[Kevin Waterson]

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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