Haha, excellent. If you're not cheating, you're not trying! -wes
On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 1:13 PM, Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> wrote: > But gave hint to cheating "fairly: ;/ > Used GParted to reformat to FAT32. > But GParted won't label a FAT partition. > Used "fatlabel" to label it. > Edited fstab: > LABEL=owlcommon /home/richard/Documents/tst_common vfat > user,rw,umask=000 0 0 > > Tested by editing the fstab of another Debian instance. > Both can read/write that directory. > > When I have time I'll test on another machine which can multi boot WinXP. > "fatlabel" gave a warning that Windows might not be happy with a lower case > label. But my immediate problem is solved. > Thank you. > > > > > > > On 07/04/2018 01:54 PM, wes wrote: > >> Whoops, apparently umask is not the answer for ext partitions. There are >> further comments there which do claim to work. >> >> -wes >> >> On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 11:50 AM, wes <p...@the-wes.com> wrote: >> >> Through a quick google of "fstab world writable" (without quotes) I found >>> this: >>> >>> https://superuser.com/questions/174776/modify-fstab- >>> entry-so-all-users-can-read-and-write-to-an-ext4-volume >>> >>> One of the answers suggests using the "umask" option in the fstab entry. >>> I >>> believe this is what you're looking for. >>> >>> -wes >>> >>> On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 5:10 AM, Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> >>> wrote: >>> >>> This Richard is confused ;/ >>>> >>>> Using GParted I created an ext4 partition labeled "owlcommon". >>>> I added the following line to fstab: >>>> LABEL=owlcommon /home/richard/Documents/tst_common ext4 rw,user 0 0 >>>> >>>> On reboot it does appear in the expected file system location. >>>> >>>> *BUT* it is locked {owned by root with users only able to read} >>>> >>>> I would like all users to have unrestricted access. >>>> If not possible, since "richard" has the same UID on all systems, I >>>> would >>>> like "richard" to have full access AUTOMATICALLY. >>>> >>>> IOW when I do a fresh install to another partition I want to write a >>>> line >>>> to that system's fstab (or elsewhere) such that "richard" automagically >>>> has >>>> full access. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On 07/03/2018 05:06 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: >>>> >>>> On Tue, 3 Jul 2018, wes wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I suspect the other Richard could be confused in a similar fashion, so >>>>> >>>>>> your reply was still valuable. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> wes, >>>>> >>>>> I must have been undercafinated when I responded. Partitions are >>>>> always >>>>> /dev/sd* (or similar) while file systems have names. It's been a hectic >>>>> day >>>>> but I won't claim that as an excuse. >>>>> >>>>> Best regards, >>>>> >>>>> Rich >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> PLUG mailing list >>>> PLUG@pdxlinux.org >>>> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >>>> >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >> PLUG mailing list >> PLUG@pdxlinux.org >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
