I added ,gid=1000 in the fstab umounted re:mounted.  now group is root, 
user is john, but I still cannot write to this fs.



On 05/12/2013 06:44 AM, Eric Auer wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> I tried to chown while it was mounted and the response was "operation
>> not permitted".  that is why I did it umounted.  can I incorporate the
>> -o uid=john into the fstab, as I am not performing a separate mount
>> command., or should I not mount it all in fstab, but use "unix mount
>> etc." in my autoexec.bat?
> Yes you can do that in fstab: Put the options in the column which
> usually says "defaults". For example a floppy drive can have:
>
> /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
>
> That means autodetect filesystem type (e.g. vfat) and use options
> rw,user,noauto,exec,nosuid,nodev so let all users who have access
> to the /dev/fd0 device mount it without needing sudo, disable all
> device-files or suid-files on floppy (security risk) but allow
> executables, do not automatically mount, mount for read and write.
>
> Another example:
>
> /dev/sda9 /mnt/e vfat defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=1000,noexec 0 1
>
> This assumes that john has user ID 1000, check by running "id" ;-)
>
> Eric
>
>
>
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