On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, Mursalin wrote: > i have mounted my fat pertion. for that purpose i added some lines in > /etc/fstab. they all works well. but the problem is that only root can write > to that partitions. > i want that users have write permission on a perticular directory of the > mounted partition. > can i do that? how? No, you can't. There is no structure in a fat filesystem to record permissions, so you have to assign permission to the whole filesystem when you mount it, either with options to the mount command, or with options in the fstab entry. To allow any user to write any directory on the partition, use umask=0; to allow only users in group x to write on it use gid=x,umask=2. To allow only user y to write on it, uid=x,umask=22. (this will make y the owner of the partition). I had to read man fstab, man mount and man umask recursively to understand this. I don't see why you shouldn't :-) You could overlay umsdos on the partition to give it a permissions structure. For this you need either umsdos support in the kernel or the module umsdos.o. I have never done it, but there is a UMSDOS-HOWTO. Probably, it is on your distro CD in docs/HOWTO or so, if not: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/ > thanks in advance. > Lawson >< Microsoft free environment This mail client runs on Wine. Your mileage may vary. ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.
