On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 11:02:37AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Can fstab cause the partition's owner to 'universal' of group 'universe'? > NOTE BENE: spelling of 'universal'/'universe' intentional. > > The intention being that *all* users would *AUTOmagically* be members of > group 'universe'. Would require attention to creating same gid > automatically.
FAT-based file systems have no concept of file ownership. The Linux msdos and vfat file systems provide the ability to set static values for user, group, and permissions, though. The "umask" option in your fstab entry is one of them. You can specify the owning user and group by adding the "uid" and "gid" options. If left unset, they default to the user that mounts the partition (root, in your case). Note that the value assigned to these options are the user's and group's numeric identifiers, not their names (e.g., "uid=1000"). You can also specify permission mode masks separately for files and directories, which will eliminate your difficulty with file creation and deletion. (A user must have execute permission for a directory before he can add to or delete from it.) Adding "dmask=022" (resulting in a directory mode of 0755) and "umask=133" (resulting in a file mode of 0644) should suffice. So try changing your fstab entry to this: UUID=E90C-65B4 /media/common vfat auto,exec,rw,flush,uid=YOUR_UID_HERE,gid=YOUR_GID_HERE,dmask=022,fmask=133 0 0 It's probably safe to remove the "exec" and "flush" options, unless you have specific reasons to include them. The mount manpage has all of the details on the various options. Search for "Mount options for fat" and "Mount options for vfat". -- Paul Mullen _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
