Re: Strange problems with permissions on fat32 partitions

[Angelo Bertolli <angelo@freeshell.org>]

Michelasso wrote:

> I have added this line to /etc/fstab in order to mount at boot the windows
> partition of my hd and to give every user permission to write on it:
>
> /dev/hda1       /mnt/win        vfat
> rw,users,umask=000,uid=1000,gid=100     0       0
>
> But I have this problem: I don't have write access to some
> directories,  as for example:
>
> dr-xr-xr-x  44 user users  32768 2005-07-28 14:39 Pictures
>
> and I *have* write access to all directories inside it, as for example:
>
> drwxrwxrwx   2 user users 32768 2005-08-12 12:29 2005_05_04
>
> Where am I wrong (If I am wrong)?
>  
I recall experiencing a few problems with umask when using only 3 
digits.  Try setting the extra bits too (umask=0000).  In this case you 
probably don't need uid or gid.

Angelo