Re: user access to FAT partition - help !

[Kevin Colby <kevinc grainsystems com>]

You came close...
Checking the man page for 'fstab' you will find:

       uid=value and gid=value
              Set the owner and group of all files. (Default: the
              uid and gid of the current process.)

       umask=value
              Set the umask (the bitmask of the permissions  that
              are  not  present). The default is the umask of the
              current process.  The value is given in octal.

Try something like "gid=440,umask=002" instead.

	- Kevin Colby
	  kevinc grainsystems com



Pierre TILQUIN wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Does anyone know how to make a FAT partition writeable to someone besides
> root.
> It must be a FAQ but I can't find the answer anywere.
> 
> As you know, the command chmod doesn't return errors but doesn't do
> anything either; and an 'ls -l' shows no 'w' permission for other users
> than root. I found something about fstab file and mount command.
> 
> In my /etc/fstab file, this partition is as follows :
> /dev/hda7   /export/home   vfat   defaults   0 0
> 
> and calling mount command prints :
> /dev/hda7 on /export/home type vfat (rw)
> 
> So it must be read-writeable but it isn't.
> 
> I modified /etc/fstab according to specific options of the mount command.
> /dev/hda7   /export/home   vfat   gid=440   0 0
> 
> But I didn't manage to set all the partition writeable to all users of
> group 440. By default, the user is root.
> Could anyone help me ?
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Pierre