Re: why only root can wirte to dos partition and java obfuscate
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 04:34:11PM -0800, Serena Cantor wrote:
> I have sarge, hda1 is vfat, I mount it, but only root can write to it.
>
> How to add write permission to other users?
>
vfat doesn't have the concept of users/owners/permissions. Mount
assigns one uid/gid to the whole vfat file system when it is mounted.
Man mount says that this defaults to the uid/gid of the 'current'
process, which would be that which mounts it, which was root durring
boot.
To get around this, add a uid= and gid= option to the mount command or
the entry in /etc/fstab.
Doug.
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