Yahoo. Thanks Tim, both of your suggestions work.
Robert On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 10:12, Tim Wright wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Robert Fisher wrote: > > > I can use the following command (as root) to see my fat32 partition but > > only root has write access. > > > > mount /dev/hda2 /home/robert/storage -t vfat > > in /etc/fstab: > > /dev/hda2 /home/robert/storage vfat defaults,uid=45714 0 2 > > This automatically mounts /dev/hda2 at startup, with a uid of 45714. There > is also a gid tag. To find out your uid and gid (user and group ids), try > this: > > ls -land ~ > > it'll give you a line like: > > drwxr-xr-x 105 45714 9500 11864 2003-01-28 10:03 /home/tnw13/ > > so, my uid is 47514, and my gid is 9500. > > This scheme has the problem that only the specified user has write access > to the drive. If this is a problem try: > > /dev/hda2 /home/robert/storage vfat defaults,user,noauto 0 2 > > This will not mount the partition at startup, and *any* user can mount the > drive (but only the user that mounted the partition can unmount it). The > user who mounted it has write access (I believe). The user just mounts it > by: > > mount /home/robert/storage > > Hope that helps, > > Tim Wright > > Assistant Lecturer > Department of Computer Science > University of Canterbury > > http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~tnw13 > -- Robert Fisher http://www.fisherfamily.orcon.net.nz
