Re: permissions and vfat

[Cameron Simpson <cs zip com au>]

On 16:47 13 Apr 2002, Caleb Chaplin <caleb videotron ca> wrote:
|  IIRC the files on a vfat filesystem are owned by the user
| > who mounted the filesystem.
| 
| Ok then, so having an entry in /etc/fstab for the relevant partition with an 
| entry like "gid=503" (for example) would have zero effect?

That shoulkd work just fine. If it mounts automatically (like the other
filesystems in fstab) the "root" mounts it, and the ownership etc will be
what you specifiy. It's "user" mounts (eg "mount /mnt/floppy" as a user)
that have less power. If this is a disc drive partition there's no reason
for it not to be permanently mounts like everything else in /etc/fstab.

| I suppose I could 
| get around that by creating a partition for the user and having fstab mount 
| it for that user.

Just so. Should work fine.
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