On Tue, 4 Jun 2002 at 18:02, Ina Patricia Lopez wrote: > i mounted my windows partition as vfat on my redhat. its permission now > is root. can i change the permission to a normal user? chmod says > operation is not permitted.
First this really sounds like a PH-Linux-Newbie question, for which reason I'm sending a copy there. Second, this is explicitly answered by the mount(8) manual page, which I highly recommend you read. I will continue to give you some pointers, anyway, hoping this will help you find what you need in the manual page. Unless you specify explicit uid/gid options during mount or via /etc/fstab, uid/gid will be of the user that mounted the filesystem. In your case you're mounting as root so it's owned by root. If you want to mount this once (perhaps automatically at boot time) and have multiple users accessing it simultaneously, don't explicitly state any uid/gid options, and just change the umask option so that the filesystem will be rwx to everybody. If you want only one person to access the mounted filesystem at a time, but want to allow anyone to mount the filesystem, add the "user" option in /etc/fstab. --> Jijo -- Federico Sevilla III : <http://jijo.free.net.ph/> Network Administrator : The Leather Collection, Inc. GnuPG Key ID : 0x93B746BE _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
