Thanks to Camaleon, John Lindsay, and Chris Brennan for responding. This statement put into my /etc/fstab seems to have worked, and auto mount as well:
UUID=9419-5112 /usb vfat uid=1000,gid=1000,utf8,umask=0000 0 0 The UUID is obtained via blkid, the uid and gid are for my keith account. I still haven't found a good explanation for the umask option- nothing in man pages under "umask", very little under pam_umask or pam ... Keith > On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 08:47:12 -0800, keitho wrote: > >> I have an external usb drive on which I have a fat32 formatted >> partition. I can't figure out how to mount it so that I can write to it >> as a normal user. > > (...) > > You need to set the right perms for the mounted partition, either > manually or by letting the automounter facility (if there is any > available) does its job, for example: > > mount -t vfat -o uid=keith,gid=keith,utf8,umask=0000 /dev/sda4 /usb > > Greetings, > > -- > Camaleón > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/f82a12ee32af972a08748345966d134a.squir...@webmail.strucktower.com
