on Mon, Oct 21, 2002, Rich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Howdy all, > > I want to change the default permissions of files in a FAT partition. > I understand that FAT file systems have no concept of permission or > ownership. When I mount the partition ownership is set to root and > permissions are set to 755. This means that only root can write to it. > I'd like it to be writable by ordinary users.
> I've tried fiddling the permissions of the mount point, and options to
> the mount command, but have had no luck. Anyone know how to make my
> FAT partition writable?
My suggestion:
- Create a 'fatuser' group, or equivalent. Add your user to this.
This group will have write permissions for vfat partitions.
- man mount. Note mount options for fat & vfat.
I use the following options to modify the the default permissions and
umask for my Samba-mounted shares at work:
uid=1000,auto,gid=smbuser,fmask=0640,dmask=075
...the arguments for vfat are similar, though may differ.
Peace.
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