Hi! > I tried to chown while it was mounted and the response was "operation > not permitted". that is why I did it umounted. can I incorporate the > -o uid=john into the fstab, as I am not performing a separate mount > command., or should I not mount it all in fstab, but use "unix mount > etc." in my autoexec.bat?
Yes you can do that in fstab: Put the options in the column which usually says "defaults". For example a floppy drive can have: /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 That means autodetect filesystem type (e.g. vfat) and use options rw,user,noauto,exec,nosuid,nodev so let all users who have access to the /dev/fd0 device mount it without needing sudo, disable all device-files or suid-files on floppy (security risk) but allow executables, do not automatically mount, mount for read and write. Another example: /dev/sda9 /mnt/e vfat defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=1000,noexec 0 1 This assumes that john has user ID 1000, check by running "id" ;-) Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed leaders in the field. The early access version is available now. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/neotech_d2d_may _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
