access permission on mounted fat32 drive
Ron Siven
r.siven at mchsi.com
Thu May 19 02:46:36 UTC 2005
On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 22:09 +0100, Kai Zhang wrote:
> Thanks all, but the problem still persists.
> I am using an server with SCSI HDs
> I appended this in fstab
> /dev/sdb5 /home/kaizhang/xp vfat auto,users,rw,gid=100,umask=777 0 0
>
> then mount -a as root
>
> now I can't even get into the directory!
>
> Help!
>
>
>
> Fred Morcos wrote:
>
> > On 5/17/05, Kai Zhang <cmskzhan at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> I have mounted a fat32 drive in my home directory. But I can only
> >> read
> >> it. i have write access when login as a root or su. tried chmod +777
> >> <directory name>, no joy.
> >> Any suggestion?
> >>
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> >
> > i assume u edited fstab, in the <mount options> column, use
> > "umask=000" (without the quotes)..
> >
> >
> >
> you may change the line in fstab to let user or users to have a rwx
> , instead of root only
>
> eg
>
> /dev/hda5 /mnt/dos vfat users,noauto 0 0
>
> then as a root, do 'mount -a'
>
> this is what my /etc/fstab entry looks like... I created a separate
> group that I gave access to my windows side of the box... (so my kid
> can't mess anything up over there...)
>
> /dev/sda1 /windows/XP auto
> users,rw,noexec,uid=500,gid=500,umask=007 0 0
>
> Hope all those ideas help.
>
I think you missed the point of an earlier reply. Try umask=000 rather
than umask=777.
Ron
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