RTM. 'man mount' will tell you that 'user' does not take an argument, but specifies that any user should be able to mount the partition. To set the UID of the files in the partition, use the 'uid=...' and 'gid=...' arguments in fstab. You may have to use 'umask=777' (or 775) instead of fmask and dmask. The manual states that fmask and dmask are present since 4.5.43, which I assume is a kernel version. Others have pointed out that Windows partitions do not support links.
Peter
Marcus Claesson wrote:
Hi,
I'm having problem doing certain things to my vfat (WinXP,FAT32) partition from RedHat 9.
It's mounted like this
/dev/hda5 on /mnt/windows type vfat (rw,fmask=777,dmask=777,user=marcus)
It looks like this:
[marcus@miah marcus]$ ll /mnt/ total 36 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 17 14:26 cdrom drwxrwxrwx 12 root root 32768 Jan 1 1970 windows
I can write to it as root, and as another user I can read but not write to it, not even as 'marcus'.
I think it has to do with the same thing as that I can't create links on this partition:
[root@miah windows]# ln -s file.txt file_link ln: creating symbolic link `file_link' to `file.txt': Operation not permitted
Does anyone out there know how I should mount this partition so these things will work. Really appreciate any help!
Regards, Marcus
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