Aha! Now I get it. Thank you, Scott. I have had the user option set in fstab before, but the /dev perms are definitely read-only for users. Although I was messing around with mount -a, I don't recall actually ever having tried mount /mnt/win with the user option set before.
I will give that a try. Thanks! Curtis. -----Original Message----- From: Scott Zuk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: March 31, 2003 2:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: (clug-talk) [support] How to give users read-write access to mounted FAT32 partitions? On March 31, 2003 02:11 pm, Curtis Sloan wrote: > Update: > > The perms on mount are the same (rwsr-xr-x), but I still get the funky > "Only root can do that" message. I forgot to check the group, I will do > that tonight. > > Thanks, > Curtis. > Hi, The permissions of mount seem ok. How exactly are you trying to mount the partition? If you are typing something like 'mount /dev/hdaX /mnt/win' it won't work unless you have the appropriate permissions on the raw /dev/ device (Only root can do that ;). You should have an fstab entry similar to the following for your win partition: /dev/hdaX /mnt/win vfat defaults,user,noauto 0 0 Typing 'mount /mnt/win' will cause mount to look for the appropriate device to mount in /etc/fstab and if it sees the user or users option, it will mount it for you as a regular user (if /bin/mount is setuid root, as it normally is). Hope this helps. ~Scott
