Need help with fstab config

jeem machine jmachine at gmail.com
Tue Aug 3 12:39:17 UTC 2004


On Mon, 02 Aug 2004 18:16:45 -0500, Andrew Konosky
<terranace007 at comcast.net> wrote:
> I have 2 windows partitions I would like to mount. C is my Windows 98
> OS, so I want it read-only. D is kind of a swap drive to keep files that
> both OS's can see, such as music and games compatible in wine. I would
> like D to be RW so that users, not just root, can write to it. I googled
> to find howtos and added the fstab entries, but they are not mounting
> like I want them too.
> 
> /dev/hda1        /mnt/C            vfat    auto,user,noexec,ro    0 0
> /dev/hda5        /mnt/D            vfat    auto,user,rw    0 0
> 
> With 'user' in there, I should be able to mount and unmount them as a
> user, but it keeps saying only root can do it. Also, D is mounted as RW,
> but only root has RW and user have RO.
> 
> What else do I need to do?
> 
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Make sure the users have access to /mnt/c /mnt/d

chgrp <users>  /mnt/C mnt/D
chmod g+wr /mnt/C /mnt/D





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