In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Webster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Only root can write to a vfat partition. I suppose because vfat >contains no extended attributes for security you cannot simply chmod on >a file/directory to allow someone other than root to write to it. Any >work arounds to allow someone other than root to write to a vfat >partition?
I think this has already been answered recently? (maybe somewhere else...) I created a group (addgroup --system graveyard) and set up /etc/fstab like so: /dev/hdc1 /graveyard vfat ro,gid=101,umask=2,nodev,noexec 0 2 So, all entries in /graveyard are in group "graveyeard"- users in group "graveyard" can write to the drive, anyone else can just read from it. (I also finally commented this out in /etc/fstab and set up autofs to automount /amnt/graveyard, but I don't think this has really gained me anything except knowledge of how to set up autofs ;)) SRH -- Life's been like dragging feet through sand and never finding the promised land [queensrÿche]