ownership / permissions on a fat32 drive

[Keith Morris]

On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 21:20, Trevor Smith wrote:

> /dev/hda5		/mnt/win2k		vfat	defaults,users,exec,dev,suid,uid=27,gid=27	0 0
> 
> This seemed to make linux happy and now I can access the files and write new 
> data with MySQL in linux and Win2k.
> 
> BUT, now linux doesn't want me to write files to that partition as a regular 
> user. Only MySQL and root can write to it, apparently.

here is how I set up my fstab to mount the fat32 partition read-write
for all users:

/dev/hdb5   /mnt/winshared   vfat
rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,auto,async,umask=000     1 2

hope that was what you were looking for.

-- 
Keith Morris <graphicsguy at charter.net>