Andrew,
Write permission for vfat file systems at mount time is only provided
to the user that does the mount. So that is what you should do -
have the user who wants to write be the one that does the mount and
eventual umount.
But first as root alter /etc/fstab to make all the vfat mounts noauto
(as the installer should have done), then reboot.
Andrew Vick wrote:
>
> I can tell you the reason but not the fix. The partition is formatted as FAT,
> which has no concept of ownership. Thus, the ownership for it is determined
> by Linux. There is a way to change it; I wish I could tell you. I have a
> drive in the same position: I have tried using Linuxconf to let users write to
> it, but it keeps coming up as read-only for non-root users. I have been
> su'ing to root to store stuff there. Does anyone know how to change this?
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Regards,
Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.
