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toastygoodness

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From: in eggo land

Registered: 2005-08-17

Posts: 30

Mounted Partition Permissions cannot be set

In KDE and CLI, no matter what I do, a "VFAT" partition I want to mount always sets rw permissions for only root. Chmod and Chown do not work either. What else do I have to add to FSTAB to get the partition available for editing.

Here's the fstab line (from memory):

/dev/hdb5 /mnt/XDATA/ vfat defaults 0 0

I also tried it like this:

/dev/hdb5 /mnt/XDATA/ vfat rw,user,exec 0 0

but the problem still persisted. Is there something else in Fstab I have to add?

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lilsirecho

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Registered: 2003-10-24

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Re: Mounted Partition Permissions cannot be set

Try ....users.....

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Cerebral

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From: Waterloo, ON, CA

Registered: 2005-04-08

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Re: Mounted Partition Permissions cannot be set

umask=000

toastygoodness

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From: in eggo land

Registered: 2005-08-17

Posts: 30

Re: Mounted Partition Permissions cannot be set

so the new fstab entry would look like:

/dev/hdb5 /mnt/XDATA/ vfat rw,users,exec,umask=000

this?

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jaboua

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Registered: 2005-11-05

Posts: 634

Re: Mounted Partition Permissions cannot be set

so the new fstab entry would look like:

/dev/hdb5 /mnt/XDATA/ vfat rw,users,exec,umask=000

this?

Yes. Or, if you want to let a user with UID 1000 and GID 100 to have write access and not the other users (Cerebral's method gives everyone read/write/execute access to the partition):

/dev/hdb5       /mnt/XDATA/        vfat            uid=1000,gid=100           0       0