Re: [gentoo-user] /proc/mounts /etc/fstab conflict?

2005-02-26 Thread maxim wexler
Thanks for all your tips and suggestions. Hats off to Karsten; your fstab suggestion seems to have done the trick 8) -mw > rwxrwxrwx is normal if you mount a vfat partition: > it doesn't support I didn't mean literally rwxrwxrwx, of course, but some octal count or other > permissions anyway.

Re: [gentoo-user] /proc/mounts /etc/fstab conflict?

2005-02-26 Thread Bill Davidson
On 19:28 Fri 25 Feb , Willie Wong wrote: > On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 03:15:35PM -0800, maxim wexler wrote: > > > ls -l /home/blissfix/fat tell you. > > > > the usual; but only if I'm root > > > > And what is "the usual"? > > And if I interpret what the original poster meant correctly, you > s

Re: [gentoo-user] /proc/mounts /etc/fstab conflict?

2005-02-26 Thread Bill Davidson
On 15:15 Fri 25 Feb , maxim wexler wrote: > > ls -l /home/blissfix/fat tell you. > > the usual; but only if I'm root What is the usual? I wanted you to post the output of the command. Bill -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] /proc/mounts /etc/fstab conflict?

2005-02-26 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 08:45:00PM -0800, maxim wexler wrote: > > And what is "the usual"? > > > well, whether dir or link or file, rwx, three times, > permissions, name and size of file(if a file) and some > number(if a dir)which I'm not sure of the meaning of, > and, if a link, what it points to

Re: [gentoo-user] /proc/mounts /etc/fstab conflict?

2005-02-25 Thread maxim wexler
> And what is "the usual"? > well, whether dir or link or file, rwx, three times, permissions, name and size of file(if a file) and some number(if a dir)which I'm not sure of the meaning of, and, if a link, what it points to -- the usual. What am I supposed to see?

Re: [gentoo-user] /proc/mounts /etc/fstab conflict?

2005-02-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 03:15:35PM -0800, maxim wexler wrote: > > ls -l /home/blissfix/fat tell you. > > the usual; but only if I'm root > And what is "the usual"? And if I interpret what the original poster meant correctly, you should probably use ls -ld /home/blissfix/fat so it doesn't att

Re: [gentoo-user] /proc/mounts /etc/fstab conflict?

2005-02-25 Thread maxim wexler
> ls -l /home/blissfix/fat tell you. the usual; but only if I'm root __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - now with 250MB free storage. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] /proc/mounts /etc/fstab conflict?

2005-02-25 Thread Bill Davidson
On 12:59 Thu 24 Feb , maxim wexler wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I have a fat32 partition on another drive /dev/hda5 > which is listed in /etc/fstab like this: > > /dev/hda5 /home/blissfix/fat vfat auto,user o o > > But as user I have no access, only as root. > > cat /proc/mounts reveals: >

Re: [gentoo-user] /proc/mounts /etc/fstab conflict?

2005-02-24 Thread maxim wexler
--- Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > maxim wexler wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > I have a fat32 partition on another drive > /dev/hda5 > > which is listed in /etc/fstab like this: > > > > /dev/hda5 /home/blissfix/fat vfat auto,user o o > > > > But as user I have no access, only

Re: [gentoo-user] /proc/mounts /etc/fstab conflict?

2005-02-24 Thread Karsten Baumgarten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 maxim wexler wrote: | Hello everyone, | | I have a fat32 partition on another drive /dev/hda5 | which is listed in /etc/fstab like this: | | /dev/hda5 /home/blissfix/fat vfat auto,user o o | | But as user I have no access, only as root. | | cat /proc/m

Re: [gentoo-user] /proc/mounts /etc/fstab conflict?

2005-02-24 Thread Eric Olinger
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 12:59:15 -0800 (PST) maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I have a fat32 partition on another drive /dev/hda5 > which is listed in /etc/fstab like this: > > /dev/hda5 /home/blissfix/fat vfat auto,user o o 'user' specifies that any user *can* mount it

Re: [gentoo-user] /proc/mounts /etc/fstab conflict?

2005-02-24 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 12:59:15PM -0800, maxim wexler wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I have a fat32 partition on another drive /dev/hda5 > which is listed in /etc/fstab like this: > > /dev/hda5 /home/blissfix/fat vfat auto,user o o > my guess is the following: you are auto-mounting it, no? So i

Re: [gentoo-user] /proc/mounts /etc/fstab conflict?

2005-02-24 Thread Holly Bostick
maxim wexler wrote: Hello everyone, I have a fat32 partition on another drive /dev/hda5 which is listed in /etc/fstab like this: /dev/hda5 /home/blissfix/fat vfat auto,user o o But as user I have no access, only as root. This is normal. The 'user' or 'users' option only allows users to mount the

Re: [gentoo-user] /proc/mounts /etc/fstab conflict?

2005-02-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 12:59:15 -0800 (PST), maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I have a fat32 partition on another drive /dev/hda5 > which is listed in /etc/fstab like this: > > /dev/hda5 /home/blissfix/fat vfat auto,user o o > > But as user I have no access, only as ro

[gentoo-user] /proc/mounts /etc/fstab conflict?

2005-02-24 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everyone, I have a fat32 partition on another drive /dev/hda5 which is listed in /etc/fstab like this: /dev/hda5 /home/blissfix/fat vfat auto,user o o But as user I have no access, only as root. cat /proc/mounts reveals: /dev/hda5 /home/blissfix/fat vfat rw,nodiratime,nosuid,nodev,noexe