From: Beolach <beolach@comcast.net>
To: Karthik <karthikv@Alum.Dartmouth.ORG>
Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mounting vfat partitions
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 20:48:37 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <408DCA05.60705@comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0404261824550.12785-100000@legolas.personal.engin.umich.edu>
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I would recommend something like:
/dev/hdb1 /dosd vfat defaults,umask=0,utf8,uid=1000,gid=100
/dev/hda1 /dosc vfat defaults,umask=0,utf8,uid=1000,gid=100
Most importantly, the umask=0 option tells mount to grant all
permissions for all users. Less important, the uid & gid specify the
user & group ids for all files on the vfat filesystem. uid=1000 should
usually be the first regular user, and gid=100 should be group users.
If you want regular (non-root) users to be able to mount & umount the
filesystem, you should add user or users to the options in fstab.
'users' will allow any user to mount or umount the filesystem, while
'user' will allow any user to mount, and only that user (or root, of
course) to umount. See man 8 mount for more options.
HTH,
Conway S. Smith
Karthik Vishwanath wrote:
> changing the /etc/fstab entries to the ones you listed below, Amin,
mounts
> the devices at boot but does not allow a user to read them.
>
> The problem persists.
>
> -K
>
> On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, at 9:26am, Amin wrote:
>
>
>>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
>>
>
>
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-27 2:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-25 22:31 mounting vfat partitions Karthik Vishwanath
2004-04-26 3:26 ` Amin
2004-04-26 22:27 ` Karthik Vishwanath
2004-04-27 2:48 ` Beolach [this message]
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