On Friday 19 December 2003 19:56, Dane Elwell wrote:
> /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs ro,umask=0
> 0 0
> /dev/hda5 /mnt/media vfat ro,umask=0
> 0
> 0 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/storage ext3 noatime,users
> 0 2
> /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbflash auto
> umask=0,noauto,user 0 0
>
> So why can I mount my USB key and write to that as a normal user without
> messing with permissions, but I can write to a hard drive without fiddling
> around?
You can't. For your other partitions, you had to specify umask=0 which is used
for fat/ntfs filesystems. Your USB key more than likely uses a fat-based
filesystem. ext3 does not respond to the umask flag and only goes by UNIX
permissions.
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Regards,
Jason Stubbs
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