I have a smallish vfat partition which I use for sharing files between
Linux and Windows. However, I can't seem to get the /etc/fstab entry
correct to allow it, and the files on it, to be writable by any user in
the `users' group. This is my current entry:
/dev/hda6 /mnt/shared vfat users,quiet,gid=users,dmask=0770,fmask=0660 0 0
The aim is that when mounted at boot, everything is owned by user `root'
and group `users', and directories have permissions drwxrwx-- and files
have permissions -rw-rw--. However, what I actually have is this:
$ ls -l /mnt/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 4 02:14 cdrom
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 13 13:49 floppy
drwxr-xr-x 4 root users 16384 Jan 1 1970 shared
$ ls -l /mnt/shared/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root users 32768 Apr 5 05:04 Recycled
drwxr-xr-x 3 root users 32768 Apr 5 05:04 System Volume Information
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users 26624 Apr 15 02:40 Thumbs.db
As you can see, the permissions were not what I expected. I have to su
to copy or move anything to /mnt/shared or to delete anything on it.
What am I getting wrong here?
TIA, Darren
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