Re: fstab setting to user VFAT partition
"Kevin McKinley" <ronin2@bellatlantic.net> writes:
> On Thu, 1 May 2003 08:19:34 -0700
> Michael S Daines <ax2groin@arbornet.org> wrote:
>
> > problem. Here is what it is currently set to:
> >
> > /dev/hda8 /home vfat suid,uid=1000,gid=100 0 2
> >
> > I have it set the uid and gid, becuase otherwise my user cannot write to
> > the disk at all. Even root, however, cannot do a chown or chgrp on
> > anything there.
>
> vfat doesn't support users or groups.
>
> Here's my fstab entry:
>
> /dev/hda5 /windata vfat user,rw,noauto 0 0
>
> Any of my selves can read or write to the partition.
If you want to be slightly more restrictive you can do what I did in
the past. Create a group via:
addgroup --gid 1111 windoze
and use an fstab entry like:
/dev/hda5 /windoze vfat uid=0,gid=1111,umask=007 0 0
Then you can add users to the windoze group so that they can
write/read to/from the windoze partition, like
adduser joeblow windoze
Check the syntax of all the gunk above, it's from memory and my memory
ain't what it used to be.
Gary
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