From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Amin Subject: Re: mounting vfat partitions Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 09:26:10 +0600 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <408C8152.7000802@siriusbb.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Karthik Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Karthik Vishwanath wrote: > /dev/hdb1 /dosd vfat defaults > /dev/hda1 /dosc vfat defaults > > This mounts the partitions correctly. However, I am able to access these > mount points only as root, and not as a user. I would prefer that these > vfat partitions be writable by root alone, but be readble for all users on > the machine. How can I fix that? > > Thanks, > > -K /dev/hdb1 /dosd vfat defaults,owner,user /dev/hda1 /dosc vfat defaults,owner,user HTH Yawar - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs