Andrew Farmer wrote: > On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 04:05:34PM -0700, Klaus D. Neumann muttered: > >>Hi, >>How can I give a normal user permission to mount my M$ partition? I >>added this line: >>/dev/hda1 /Windows vfat user 0 0 >>to my /etc/fstab, but when I try to mount it, I get this: >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] klaus $ mount /dev/hda1 /Windows >>mount: only root can do that > > > Check the permissions on /Windows. Also note that it's customary for > mounts to all live in /mnt. > > Also check permissions on /dev/hda1. >
File system permissions might also be the problem : vfat is not an unix file system, it doesn't handle permissions. So you have to use the UID option in your fstab tu set an owner of all the files on the partition. So look at the UID, GID, UMASK options in "man mount", here is an piece of my fstab : /dev/hdb3 /home/WIN vfat rw,user,uid=1000,gid=0 0 0 -- Nicolas -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
