Re: Problems write access on vfat partition
On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Stephen Gran wrote:
> 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.
Or you could put uid,gid in the definition in fstab, e.g.:
rw,auto,uid=500,gid=500
hth
Patrick
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