I want to be able to write to a VFAT partition as a "regular" user but haven't figured out how to do so.[snip]
When I try to make the the mount point group-writable with "chmod 775 /mnt/FAT", I get this result:That's because fat and vfat file systems don't really have access control. You can control access to the whole partition with the uid, gid and umask mount options.
chmod: changing permissions of `/mnt/Xtra-FAT' (requested: 0775, actual: 0755): Operation not permitted
For example, I have
/dev/hda6 /mnt/fat vfat uid=500,gid=500 0 0
in my /etc/fstab which gives me access to /mnt/vfat. I can change the permissions from 0755 (rwxr-xr-x) to 0777 (rwxrwxrwx) by adding "umask=0" to the list ofoptions. Don't be tempted to put "umask=0111" to remove the execute bit otherwise you won't be able to opten files -- directories need the "x" bit set. If you want to disable execution of images on that partition, add "noexec" to the options.
jch
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