When you find out, let me know. I went round and
round with automount to see what I could do and
nothing seems to work. Users can read win/dos
disks, but not write. Root can do anything.
Joe
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> Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 7:23 PM
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> Subject: fstab rw for usr on vfat
>
>
>
> Something has changed on my redhat6.0 laptop to where $USER cannot
> write to /mnt/dos1 (mounted as -tvfat)
>
> I've chmoded, chowned, cajoled, stroked and otherwise tittilated the
> directory but still I can not write there as user. Whereas with what
> appear to be the same permissions and settings on a nearby 6.2 machine
> I can write to dos with no problems as $USER.
>
> When umounted `chown reader.reader /mnt/dos1' does what you'd expect but
> when remounted it reverts back to root root. On the 6.2 machine the
> directory stays chowned mounted or not.
>
> I haven't been accessing this machine regularly but I'm reasonably
> certain I once had this working.
>
> The fstab entry looks like this:
> /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos1 vfat
> noauto,user,dev,exec,suid,rw,perm=664,quiet 0 0
>
> Some of this was set back in the days of 4* and 5* when we had the cabaret
> util ( I liked that one) and has been carried along since. I may have
> changed something here... not sure now. The perm part has never had
> any effect I don't think. Quiet comes from the days when moving
> something across filesystems resulted in an error although the action
> was completed.
>
> `man fstab' is right on the borderline between just useless and
> utterly useless for this. Its author has honored the well worn tradition
> of giving absolutely *NO* examples. (Who ever started that trend years
> ago should have there neck wrung)
>
> Maybe one day examples will be seen as bare minimum for something that
> claims to be *THE* source of documentation.
>
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