On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 12:42:49AM +0100, D. D. Brierton wrote: > 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 > > -- You have lots of options on the fstab lines that seem unecessary. All you need is : /dev/hda6 /mnt/shared vfat rw 0 0 And the directory /mnt/shared should be 777. -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University 715 Stadium Dr. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx
