Re: Permissions on a vfat partition
On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 19:20, Johann Koenig wrote:
> 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!
>
> 'man mount'
>
> Search for 'umask'
>
> Or search the archives, this has been covered *many* times.
If it's coevered *many* times, it's obviously an issue that merits
discussion.
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