You can accomplish this using the uid, gid, and umask options
of mount. See the mount manpage (under the options for fat
section) for more details.
tw
On 07/19/2000 15:43 -0400, Hong F Du wrote:
>> The /mnt/dosE is a fat16 file system which is on a ide hard drive from my
>> dual-boot NT/Linux system. It is setup as msdos type with auto translation
>mode
>> when mounted. As a root, I can rwx the mounted /mnt/dosE. Now I want it to be
>read
>> and writable for USERS group too, that makes problem appear.
>>
>> feng
>>
>> Tim Walberg wrote:
>>
>> > On 07/19/2000 14:28 -0400, Hong F Du wrote:
>> > >> Hi All,
>> > >>
>> > >> I have a dos formatted drive /mnt/dosE, its permission is 761. When
>it
>> > >> is not mount yet, I can change its mode to 771. When I mount it, its
>> > >> permission is automatically changed back to 761. Once the drive is
>> > >> mounted, I cannot change its permission no matter what I try.
>> > >>
>> >
>> > When the drive is not mounted, the chmod affects only the directory
>> > on which the drive will be mounted. Once the drive is mounted, the
>> > root inode of that filesystem overlays the directory (so you can't
>> > get to the directory any more until the drive is unmounted), so chmod
>> > would then affect that inode, and not the directory. Why you can't
>> > change the mode on the filesystem's root inode, though I can't
>> > say - are you mounting it read-only? Is it NTFS, which (usually)
>> > can't be mounted read-write? A cdrom? A FAT filesystem which doesn't
>> > relate directly to the Unix permission triad? Need more information
>> > to analyze any further...
>> >
>> > tw
>> >
>> > >> What is going on here? How should I make the permission change?
>> > >>
>> > >> Thank you in advanced
>> > >>
>> > >> feng
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