This one time, at band camp, Matthias Daub said: > I am trying to mount my Win32 data partition so that I am able to use > it under Debian as well. My fstab for this partition looks like this: > > /dev/hda5 /mnt vfat rw,user,auto,exec 0 0 > > I have full read access but I have no write access. Do you any idea of > how to change that? > > Thank you! vfat doesn't understand user/group permissions at all, so when a vfat partition is mounted, IIRC, the kernel gives it user/group ownership based on who mounted it. If it's mounted at boot time, it gets user/group root, and you can read it but not write to it. Try noauto in fstab, and then mount it as a user - you should now have write access to it. If you find it obnoxious to have to do by hand every time, you could put a line in .bashrc and .bash_logout to handle mounting/umounting if you want. HTH, Steve -- If you MUST get married, it is always advisable to marry beauty. Otherwise, you'll never find anybody to take her off your hands.
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