On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 11:52:13 +1300 rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks David, Volker, Dave > > What is a *ix filesystem?
*ix is a horrtcut to "unix, linux, etc etc" ie he is talikng about unix and unix-like filesystems, with unix style ownerships and permissions > > No its not a USB device, it's a FAT partition on the machine's hard > drive that needs rw access on Ubuntu and XP, hence FAT system. I'm just > getting read access all the time. most USB devices are FAT, that may be where the confusion is coming from. the principles are the same. please also note that here are two fat file systems, fat and vfat. > > Dave suggested a line in /etc/fstab: > > /dev/hda6 /mnt/hda6 ext3 auto,users,exec 0 0 (substituting relevant > partition & file system of course). > > but I couldn't get a /mnt/FAT entry to work at all, however at least it > mounts and reads OK with a /media/FAT line, suggested by David. if you want to put it in /media instead of /mnt, go ahead. I am sure you can work out what changes you need to make to the line suggested. > > Distro mounts USB devices flawlessly (well it seems all right to me). > > Woodsey > > On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 10:34 +1300, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > > I don't think Linux permissions work on a FAT partition anyway, so > > > this is all irrelevant. > > > > Correct! FAT + VFAT have no notion of *ix permissions, but to make it a > > *ix filesystem, permissions have to be invented. The parameters in fstab > > (or with the mount command) supply the permissions which are used when > > the filesystem is mounted. You can specify permissions for files and > > directories seperately. Other types than files and directories can not > > exist. > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
