Alan Schussman wrote:
>
> Ken and John-
>
> Thanks for the feedback. You may be right, John; regardless of how I try
> to set the mount, it won't let anybody but root write to it. I certainly
> understand the logic of not corrupting the DOS file system, but such a
> hard-and-fast prevention seems to short-circuit any benefit of being able
> to access the partition at all. It's pretty inconvenient to have to su in
> order to copy shared files to my windows partition, but if that's what I
> have to do, well I guess that's what I have to do.
What you want to use is the 'umask=' option on the /etc/fstab line.
Check the manpage for information on what it does. I'd include the full
line for you, but I don't have any fat/vfat partitions to try it out
on. Hopefully someone on the list can take a look at the option and let
you know what the value should be.
> On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, John Aldrich wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, you wrote:
> > > > mount -t vfat /dev/hdax /mnt/dos (replace hdax with the
> > > > device where your DOS partition is.)
> > >
> > > It works fine for me, with one exception: the directory to which I mount
> > > my windows partition is only writeable by root, even if I chmod it after I
> > > mount the partition. Has anybody experienced that?
> > >
> > Umm...yeah.... that's for a good reason. :-) If you aren't
> > careful you can corrupt your DOS file system, at least
> > that's what I suspect is the reason for disallowing anyone
> > but "root" to write to the dos partition.
> >
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