lorne schachter wrote:
How do I set up /etc/fstab so that I can write to my windows drives when
I'm a regular user?
I have no trouble writing as root, but I can't as a regular user.
Write access is only available to the user who mounted the FAT32
disk. That is very logical and sensible
Use the uid= and gid= options in that fstab line (do a 'man mount' for
further details). FAT systems have no concept of user IDs and Linux
defaults to UID/GID of the mounter (which is root during the boot sequence).
The override fixes that.
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From: lorne schachter
Have you checked the permissions on the device?
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On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, you wrote:
How do I set up /etc/fstab so that I can write to my windows drives when
I'm a regular user?
I have no trouble writing as root, but I can't as a regular user.
It's a "Bad Idea (tm)" to let "joe user" have write access to
non-linux partitions. Why? Because
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, the little plastic letters were pressed in this order:
How do I set up /etc/fstab so that I can write to my windows drives when
I'm a regular user?
I have no trouble writing as root, but I can't as a regular user.
Thanks,
Lorne
To do that you need a line like
