Hi there, The problem with this solution is that _anyone_ can write to your fat partition then. That's ok on a home box where you are the only user, but its not so good on a family/multiuser box. Better to use the uid= and gid= options which allow you to have tighter control over who can do what on the partition. Regards Aaron On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 05:13:24AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > I will include one typical vfat entry I have my system to enable me to > write to my windows dirs. I honestly can't remember the meaning of > the last two variables on the line but this works for me. I think the > umask is what enables normal users to write files without permission > problems. > /dev/hda1 /hda1 vfat defaults,umask=000 1 0 > /dev/hdc1 /hdc1 vfat defaults,umask=000 1 0 > /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 user,noauto,ro,unhide 0 0 > > Guess I'm gonna have to pay another visit to the man pages for mount > and fstab:) > > > On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 07:19:33AM -0230, Doug Lawlor wrote: > > Hello list, I need to know how to let a user besides 'root' write to a > > partition. I've tried everything I know and it's not working here. A > > line from my 'fstab' file is below. > > > > /dev/hdc4 /var/music ext2 users 1 1 > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Doug > > > > > > -- > > Doug Lawlor <dlawlor at roadrunner.nf.net> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- +----------------------------------------------------------+ / |\ _,,,---,,_ /| / /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ / | / |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' / | / '---''(_/--' `-'\_) / | +----------------------------------------------------------+ | | Aaron Howell Kitten Internet | | | aaron at kitten.net.au Internet consultancy, | | | Phone: +61-417-625550 System administration, | | | fax: +61-7-36010099 system design/integration. | | | icq: 6715521 http://www.kitten.net.au | | | | | | | + | | / | | / | | / | |/ +----------------------------------------------------------+
