fstab values (was Re: Permissions for vfat mounted drive)

1998-11-20 Thread John Stevenson
Hello On a related matter, can anyone tell me what the numbers actually mean at the end of each line in the fstab descritpions I know that they are labelled dump and pass but what does that actually mean? What values should I be using ?? I have just coppied off others examples previously.

Re: fstab values (was Re: Permissions for vfat mounted drive)

1998-11-20 Thread servis
*- John Stevenson wrote about fstab values (was Re: Permissions for vfat mounted drive) Hello On a related matter, can anyone tell me what the numbers actually mean at the end of each line in the fstab descritpions I know that they are labelled dump and pass but what does

Re: fstab values (was Re: Permissions for vfat mounted drive)

1998-11-20 Thread W. Paul Mills
John Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello On a related matter, can anyone tell me what the numbers actually mean at the end of each line in the fstab descritpions I know that they are labelled dump and pass but what does that actually mean? What values should I be using ?? I

Re: Permissions for vfat mounted drive

1998-11-19 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello John Stevenson, I created a dos group and tried to assign the win98 partition as belonging to the dos group, but this did ... Any ideas how I can get no root access to my win98 partion, or is it a Fat32 problem. You need to give it a couple of options when you are mounting it. If you

Re: Permissions for vfat mounted drive

1998-11-19 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Pierre-Antoine wrote: Leon Breedt wrote: You can specify the uid=value, gid=value and umask=value options when mounting, or in /etc/fstab; see mount(8) and fstab(5). how can i specify that i don't want any files on the dos partitions to have executable permissions? or is that the

Re: Permissions for vfat mounted drive

1998-11-19 Thread Rainer Clasen
Hi! John Stevenson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Any ideas how I can get no root access to my win98 partion, or is it a Fat32 problem. I use this in my fstab: /dev/sda1 /dos/c vfat umask=0002,gid=110,uid=0,showexec 0 2 gid 110 is called dosfs, but you may use dos's gid. Rainer -- KeyID=58341901

Permissions for vfat mounted drive

1998-11-18 Thread John Stevenson
Hello Debian Land, I have a question about access permissions. I can access my vfat mounted windows98 partition as any user, however I can only get write access when I am root. My linux and win98 partitions are on the same harddrive. I used to be able to get the desired access by adding users

Re: Permissions for vfat mounted drive

1998-11-18 Thread Pierre-Antoine CHAMPIN
John Stevenson wrote: I created a dos group and tried to assign the win98 partition as belonging to the dos group, but this did not work, only assigning the mount point to dos and not the file hierachy underneath that mount point. I even tried to chmod it, but no luck. I solved this at

Re: Permissions for vfat mounted drive

1998-11-18 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 13:06:22 +0100, John Stevenson wrote: [how to have user write access to a DOS/windows partition] You can specify the uid=value, gid=value and umask=value options when mounting, or in /etc/fstab; see mount(8) and fstab(5). HTH, Ray -- Obsig: developing a new sig

Re: Permissions for vfat mounted drive

1998-11-18 Thread Leon Breedt
On Wed, Nov 18 1998, J.H.M. Dassen Ray spake thus: You can specify the uid=value, gid=value and umask=value options when mounting, or in /etc/fstab; see mount(8) and fstab(5). how can i specify that i don't want any files on the dos partitions to have executable permissions? or is that the way

Re: Permissions for vfat mounted drive

1998-11-18 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 15:35:55 +0200, Leon Breedt wrote: On Wed, Nov 18 1998, J.H.M. Dassen Ray spake thus: You can specify the uid=value, gid=value and umask=value options when mounting, or in /etc/fstab; see mount(8) and fstab(5). how can i specify that i don't want any files on the dos

Re: Permissions for vfat mounted drive

1998-11-18 Thread Pierre-Antoine CHAMPIN
Leon Breedt wrote: You can specify the uid=value, gid=value and umask=value options when mounting, or in /etc/fstab; see mount(8) and fstab(5). how can i specify that i don't want any files on the dos partitions to have executable permissions? or is that the way the msdosfs filesystem

Re: Permissions for vfat mounted drive

1998-11-18 Thread PERALVO MUnOZ MIGUEL ANGEL
On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 15:35:55 +0200, Leon Breedt wrote: On Wed, Nov 18 1998, J.H.M. Dassen Ray spake thus: You can specify the uid=value, gid=value and umask=value options when mounting, or in /etc/fstab; see mount(8) and fstab(5).