+++ Shridhar Daithankar [2006-04-17 23:16:52]:
> On Monday 17 April 2006 22:23, kghosh wrote:
> > I have 3 users and 8 partitions on my system. I want to set up one of
> > the partitions as a common partition for all three users to Read, Write
> > and Execute. This common partition will be a FAT for file transfer to
> > and from the windows partition also. How do I set up the fstab so that
> > this is done at boot-up ?
>
> Can't do that. FAT partitions can't carry permissions so if it is mounted as
> one user, other won't be able to use it.
>
> You can put a mount command in .bashrc for each user and grant appropriate
> mount privilages to each of the user/group in /etc/fstab.
Not so..
mount supports uid/gid/umask values while mounting fat partitions
so setting a umask which allows read/write for the group and setting the gid
to say "users" and adding all the users to the "users" group if they aren't
already in it should solve his problem.
Kingsly
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