Thanks for responding. I have the following line in the /etc/fstab file UUID=<something> /home/office vfat uid=500,users,rw,exec 0 0 but still the directory is not allowing user with id 500 to write its only giving read and execute permission. Am i missing something??? On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 3:42 AM, JD <jd1008@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 10/23/2010 10:22 AM, sumatheja wrote: >> Hi All, >> I have made a partition in my hard disk and mounted it to >> /media/xyz. But i'm unable to change the permissions of the mounted >> directory at all. >> I want to give read/write permissions to some of the users other than root. >> > Well, I have a vfat partition mounted from fstab, > in which I grant group access to a specific gid. > > /dev/sde3 /sde3 vfat gid=777,user,rw,exec 0 0 > > users in group 777 can read/write/execute. > They can execute the executable files in wine. > > Users in group 777 can mount and unmount. > In order to accomplish this, > the group permissions on /sdd3 and /dev/sdd3 is rwx, > and the gid of /sde3 and /dev/sde3 is 777. > > Good luck. > > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > -- cheers Sumatheja Dasararaju -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
