Incoming from Curtis Sloan: > On Thu April 8 2004 19:28, s. keeling wrote: > > Incoming from Curtis Sloan: > > > I have one partition on one disk that the system believes is read-only. > > > It is a FAT32 filesystem. The only thing different from the other FAT32 > > > partitions (I dual boot w/ Windows 98 for games) is that this partition > > > is primary, > > > > What's its fstab entry? > > /dev/hdb2 /mnt/storage vfat > gid=10,users,exec,nodev,suid,rw,quiet,umask=002 1 0 > > Notes: GroupID 10 = wheel (the members are root and my user account) -- just > used for easy (and insecure ;-) sudo commands.
I don't know why you want to do all that, but I'll assume you know what you're doing. You might try shortening it to: defaults,gid=10,users,nodev,umask=002 since each of rw, suid, and exec are defaults. In particular, exec is dangerous. And I wonder what a Unix style umask really means when applied to a fat filesystem that simply can't support Unix style permissions. Why, if you're doing that elsewhere and it works, it won't also do it on this particular fs, I don't know except if you have UTF-8 stuff going on that's fouling it up. Or mount is reading the fs superblock wrong. Try comparing the output of "mount" for the various fs that are working correctly against what mount says about this one. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - - _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
