On Thu, 28 Mar 2002 15:08:51 -0500
Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I need read/write access to my windows partition
> The relevant line in /etc/fstab is:
>       /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat user,rw 0 0
> Output from $ mount is:
>       /dev/hda1 on /mnt/windows type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
> 
> With windows partition not mounted, $ ll /mnt gives:
>       drwxrwxrwx    2 root     root         4096 Mar 22 13:21 windows/
> 
> After # mount /mnt/windows , $ ll /mnt gives:
>       drwxr-xr-x   30 root     root        16384 Dec 31  1969 windows/
> 
> I found a thread in archives back in Feb. about this problem, but no 
> solution, just some interesting "try this".
> My system is vanilla 8.2 from clean install.  I didn't have this problem with 
> previous versions on same hardware.  
> 
> 

just add umask=0 in the 4th field (options) of /etc/fstab for each vfat partition.

bye
jipe

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