On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 23:16 +0530, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:

> 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.

That's alright. Only one user at a time uses the partition.

> 
> 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.

Could you please elaborate.

> 
> Downside is only one of them can use it at a time. No more concurrent-linux. 
> But if it hosts my uncles windows98 partition with a gig of songs for my 
> cousins, so be it..:)

This is for games (DOS) :)  Unable to load DOS on AMD64, so using DOSBOX
under Linux to play the games. That is the reason for the R/W/E
permissions for all users.


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