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Re: Permissions on a vfat partition



On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 21:08:06 -0400
Rich B <deblists@osg.saic.com> wrote:

> All,
> 
> I've got a dual boot laptop with Sarge & Win2k.
> My problem is that when I mount the fat32 partition only root can
> access it.  Any other user account gets "Permission denied"  when
> trying to access anything on the partition. I can't even do an "ls" as
> a normal user.
> 
> My fstab entry currently looks something like this:
>      /dev/hda4     /fat     vfat     defaults     1 0
> 
> I've tried every combination mount options I could think of, but still
> 
> only root can use the partition.
> 
> What am I doing wrong?  Help!

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