On 4/17/06, Kingsly John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > +++ Shridhar Daithankar [2006-04-17 23:16:52]: > > > On Monday 17 April 2006 22:23, kghosh wrote: > > > I have 3 users and 8 partitions on my system. I want to set up one of > > > the partitions as a common partition for all three users to Read, Write > > > and Execute. This common partition will be a FAT for file transfer to > > > and from the windows partition also. How do I set up the fstab so that > > > this is done at boot-up ? > > > > Can't do that. FAT partitions can't carry permissions so if it is mounted as > > one user, other won't be able to use it. > > > > You can put a mount command in .bashrc for each user and grant appropriate > > mount privilages to each of the user/group in /etc/fstab. > > Not so.. > > mount supports uid/gid/umask values while mounting fat partitions > > so setting a umask which allows read/write for the group and setting the gid > to say "users" and adding all the users to the "users" group if they aren't > already in it should solve his problem. > > Kingsly
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