On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Robert Fisher wrote: > I can use the following command (as root) to see my fat32 partition but > only root has write access. > > mount /dev/hda2 /home/robert/storage -t vfat
in /etc/fstab: /dev/hda2 /home/robert/storage vfat defaults,uid=45714 0 2 This automatically mounts /dev/hda2 at startup, with a uid of 45714. There is also a gid tag. To find out your uid and gid (user and group ids), try this: ls -land ~ it'll give you a line like: drwxr-xr-x 105 45714 9500 11864 2003-01-28 10:03 /home/tnw13/ so, my uid is 47514, and my gid is 9500. This scheme has the problem that only the specified user has write access to the drive. If this is a problem try: /dev/hda2 /home/robert/storage vfat defaults,user,noauto 0 2 This will not mount the partition at startup, and *any* user can mount the drive (but only the user that mounted the partition can unmount it). The user who mounted it has write access (I believe). The user just mounts it by: mount /home/robert/storage Hope that helps, Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~tnw13
