You can leave them on at boot, just change the umask to 0. The umask
permissions are exactly inverted from the normal chmod permissions,
which throws most people off. For instance, if you want to allow no
writes or reads to the drive (don't know why you would), the umask
would be 777. If you want anyone to have access to read and write and
execute, the umask is 000. Backwards, but it works.
No need to get cranky at the default fstab, although putting things
under /mnt/DOS_hda1 was odd. I prefer a bit SHORTER mount point myself.
:-)
On 15 Mar, Ron Stodden wrote:
> Andrew,
>
> Write permission for vfat file systems at mount time is only provided
> to the user that does the mount. So that is what you should do -
> have the user who wants to write be the one that does the mount and
> eventual umount.
>
> But first as root alter /etc/fstab to make all the vfat mounts noauto
> (as the installer should have done), then reboot.
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