Changing fstab and re-mounting disks
Here is one I can not explain: A user wanted to mount a vfat partition
(/dev/hda4) to /mnt/hda4. His fstab had this line in it:
/dev/hda4 /mnt/hda4 auto defualts,rw,users,owner,auto,uid=1000 0 0
(uid=username ID).
And yet, root:root owned all the files/dirs, that was to be expected, I
think, and user could not mkdir or files, permission denied. I had him
change the fstab line to this:
/dev/hda4 /mnt/hda4 vfat defualts,rw,users,auto,suid=1000,umask=0 0 0
(umask setting is a test, to test writing)
umount /dev/hda4 as root. mount /dev/hda4 as user. ls -l on hda4
showed root:root owned all the files (drwxr-xr-x 14 root root )
Could not chown -R user:user /mnt/hda4/* as root, "not allowed". the
user ran out of time (life gets in the way), but I found out a few hours
latter he "fixed" the problem: From a irc past:
(19:18:13) Dbarracuda: what was it?
(19:18:22) RABraker: the hell if i know <<<the user in question
(19:18:26) Dbarracuda: lol
(19:18:31) Dbarracuda: it just started working?
(19:18:58) RABraker: i mounted it in /media/hda4 and made arnold the
owner of both
(19:19:25) RABraker: but it seemed to start working after changing the
fstab and rebooting
so, here is the question: What did I advise wrongly and why would not a
umount, mount /dev/hda4 work? We only wanted user to be the only one to
access it. Keep in mind, I really don't know what was finally changed
during the above irc session, at this point in time, I only surmise that
the changes I recommended were used. I rarely play with vfat anymore,
and obviously I am rusty.
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Damon L. Chesser
damon@damtek.com
damon@okfairtax.org
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