how can root mount a FAT partition so other users can get write permission?

Reinhard Sy reinhard at meinberlikomm.de
Thu Nov 18 14:46:41 UTC 2004


Am Mittwoch, den 17.11.2004, 00:02 -0500 schrieb Phil Schaffner:
> On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 11:40 +0700, Nguyen Dinh Kien wrote:
> > I edit fstab so i can mount a FAT partition, but not root user can't
> > write to this mount point. How can i mount this partition so other
> > users can get write permission?
> 
> No really clean way to do it except to mount for a single user, or open
> it up to a group with this brain-damaged file system.  Do "man mount"
> and look at "Mount options for fat" section.  Some combination of uid,
> gid, umask, dmask, and fmask options may be what you want.
> 
I use the following in my /etc/fstab it works for me but I am the only
person using this machine.....

/dev/hdc4  /Benutzer vfat uid=500,gid=100,exec,defaults   0 0

Reinhard






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