mounting fat writable

fdrebin · 2005-05-04 17:47:28

how can i mount a windows fat partition to be writable
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/mydrive mounts the partition but non-writable ???

polarrr · 2005-05-04 17:56:54

What does your fstab look like?

fdrebin · 2005-05-04 18:02:00

this is what i want to know - what to put here ...

T-Dawg · 2005-05-04 18:08:24

/dev/hda1   /mnt/mydrive   vfat   defaults,umask=0000    0 0

polarrr · 2005-05-04 18:08:46

Ah alright.

I'll show you mine. Whether it's right or wrong, I don't know, but works for me.

/dev/hda5              /mnt/storage vfat gid=100,uid=1000,codepage=437,shortname=mixed,umask=000 0 0
/dev/hda7                swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda6              / reiserfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda8              /home reiserfs defaults 0 0

I especially like the shortname bit since the system can correctly recognize the upper/lower case directory without turning everything into lower case

Actually I got that from one of the articles on osnews. If you are interested, here it is.

http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=9681&page=2

fdrebin · 2005-05-04 18:23:38

so umask=000 is the command to make it writableor what does this do ?

polarrr · 2005-05-04 18:26:58

I think that's correct. But I'm sure someone who knows better than me can answer that. I'm just using what works without a whole a lot of technical stuff.

T-Dawg · 2005-05-04 18:31:22

fdrebin wrote:

so umask=000 is the command to make it writableor what does this do ?

Yes. The 0's allow read write and exec. 1 is read and write. 2 is read and exec. 3 is read. 4 is write and exec. 5 is write. 6 is exec. 7 is no permissions. Think of everything in that directory with a default chmod of 777, the umask subracts from those permisions, only when dealing with fstabs. The very first 0 (there are four) represents octal not decimal.
The first 0 is owner, second is groups, third is everyone else.
Thats the best I can explain it without getting to technical.

IceRAM · 2005-05-04 18:41:01

I use

/dev/sda5 /mnt/shared vfat rw,noatime,nosuid,nodev,noexec,nouser,async,umask=0,fmask=111 0 0

rw is for readwrite,
no* is for blocking many things (see man, I took these options from a webpage, I think),
async, umask... I don't remember (see above line)
fmask=111 makes the executable flag dissapear. This way I make sure I have no executable files copied from the FAT partition to the reiser partition.

Of course, some of the options might be redundant or not appliable, but I didn't have time to do extensive research on this.

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mounting fat writable

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Re: mounting fat writable

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