fedora-list Digest, Vol 15, Issue 154

[Robert Allen Werch]

    Fred Morcos wrote:

>     On 5/17/05, Kai Zhang <cmskzhan at gmail.com> wrote:
>      
>
>>     I have mounted a fat32 drive in my home directory. But I can only
>>     read
>>     it. i have write access when login as a root or su. tried chmod +777
>>     <directory name>, no joy.
>>     Any suggestion?
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>     i assume u edited fstab, in the <mount options> column, use
>     "umask=000" (without the quotes)..
>
>      
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    you may change the line in fstab to let user or users to have a rwx
    , instead of root only

    eg

    /dev/hda5    /mnt/dos    vfat    users,noauto   0 0

    then as  a root, do 'mount -a'


this is what my /etc/fstab entry looks like...  I created a separate
group that I gave access to my windows side of the box... (so my kid
can't mess anything up over there...)

/dev/sda1        /windows/XP        auto   
users,rw,noexec,uid=500,gid=500,umask=007    0 0

Hope all those ideas help.