On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 12:59:15 -0800 (PST), maxim wexler
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I have a fat32 partition on another drive /dev/hda5
> which is listed in /etc/fstab like this:
> 
> /dev/hda5  /home/blissfix/fat vfat auto,user o o
> 
> But as user I have no access, only as root.
> 
> cat /proc/mounts reveals:
> 
> /dev/hda5 /home/blissfix/fat vfat
> rw,nodiratime,nosuid,nodev,noexec,fmask=0033,dmask=0033
> 0 0
> 
> not sure what this means but even as root chown gives:
> 
> chown: Changing ownership of '/home/blissfix/fat/*':
> operation not permitted.
> 
> BTW, /home is part of my root partition:
> 
> /dev/hdb3  / reiserfs noatime 0 1

Hi,
   I mount mine like this:

/dev/sda2               /home/mark/Gigs         vfat    rw,noauto,user  0 0

Note that I had to make the Gigs directory as user mark, then su to
root and do a chown and chgrp of /home/mark/Gigs to mark:users. (With
the drive NOT mounted) After that change mounting the drive and
writing to it was no problem.

The message about 'operation not permitted' is most likely because FAT
does not support owner:group:world permissions.

Hope this helps,
Mark
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