Re: Making a vfat partition writeable by all in `users' group?

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam Trinity Edu>]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 12:42:49AM +0100, D. D. Brierton wrote:
> I have a smallish vfat partition which I use for sharing files between
> Linux and Windows. However, I can't seem to get the /etc/fstab entry
> correct to allow it, and the files on it, to be writable by any user in
> the `users' group. This is my current entry:
> 
> 
> /dev/hda6  /mnt/shared  vfat  users,quiet,gid=users,dmask=0770,fmask=0660  0 0
> The aim is that when mounted at boot, everything is owned by user `root'
> and group `users', and directories have permissions drwxrwx-- and files
> have permissions -rw-rw--. However, what I actually have is this:
> 
> 
> $ ls -l /mnt/
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Apr  4 02:14 cdrom
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Apr 13 13:49 floppy
> drwxr-xr-x    4 root     users       16384 Jan  1  1970 shared
> $ ls -l /mnt/shared/
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root     users       32768 Apr  5 05:04 Recycled
> drwxr-xr-x    3 root     users       32768 Apr  5 05:04 System Volume Information
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     users       26624 Apr 15 02:40 Thumbs.db
> As you can see, the permissions were not what I expected. I have to su
> to copy or move anything to /mnt/shared or to delete anything on it.
> 
> What am I getting wrong here?
> 
> TIA, Darren
> 
> -- 
You have lots of options on the fstab lines that seem unecessary.
All you need is : /dev/hda6  /mnt/shared  vfat rw 0 0

And the directory /mnt/shared should be 777.
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