On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 07:25:06PM +0100, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > Hello, > > I have a USB drive formatted as fat32 that I would like to be > writeable by all users. > > I was used on Linux that all fat drives were automatically rw by all > users but not so on Netbsd. > > Assuming the drive is sd1e, I have mounted it as: > (I am writing from Windows now, so I am recalling) > > # mount /dev/sd1e /mnt > > but I get permission errors when trying to save files on it as non root. > > I thought I could mount it like this: > > # mount_msdos -u 777 /dev/sd1e /mnt > > In this case I get no errors, but actually the files are not saved. > > I remember once mounting it successfully with the option: > > # mount_msdos -u ottavio /dev/sd1e /mnt > > where 'ottavio' is my regular user, but it didn't work. > > I am surely missing something obvious, but I need your help with this.
See the -M and -m options of mount_msdos(8).
