Perfect.. Thanks :) And I presume if I want to allow other users to access that mount I just add them to the group I specified in gid?
Cheers Kel -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Johan Andersson Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 11:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Mounting fat32 partitions Hi! Use the options umask= and gid= when mounting the filesystem. Ex. fstab entry: /dev/hdd1 /mnt/filestore vfat auto,umask=007,gid=100 /Johan Andersson Kelerion wrote: >Hey all.. just a quick question.. > >I've mounted a partition (ide4) to /mnt/filestore successfully but I'm >having a few problems.. > >I know I can't set permissions on fat32 partitions but it's the only >format that I can think of that allows me to read and write to in both >winxp and linux (apart from ntfs but writing under linux is dodgy) > >So.. I have fat32.. and (as root) everything works fine.. but as any >other user I can't even read the mount.. let alone access any files.. >I've tried a "chown craig /mnt/filestore" and even a "chmod 777 >/mnt/filestore" but they come back with a permission denied (and I'm >doing it as root).. so I'm presuming it's a fat32 issue.. > >How can I get around these limitation? > >TIA > >Kel > > > > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
