On Tuesday 18 April 2006 20:15, kghosh wrote: > On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 23:16 +0530, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > > 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. > > That's alright. Only one user at a time uses the partition. > > > 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. > > Could you please elaborate.
Add 'users' option in /etc/fstab so that any user can mount/unmount the filesytem and add a relevant umount/mount command sequence to the ~/.bashrc for the user so that the filesystem is mounted whenever user logs on. And of course being the mounting user (s)he gets full access to the filesystem. > > Downside is only one of them can use it at a time. No more > > concurrent-linux. But if it hosts my uncles windows98 partition with a > > gig of songs for my cousins, so be it..:) > > This is for games (DOS) :) Unable to load DOS on AMD64, so using DOSBOX > under Linux to play the games. That is the reason for the R/W/E > permissions for all users. :) Shridhar ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
