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["James L. Burke" <jburke@burkepoirier.com>]

Hello all,

I recently I spent a couple of hours trying to figure out how to
mount/use vfat filesystems from within Linux without being root.  The
mount part proved to be fairly easy, but the USE part seemed tougher.  I
know most of you are probably shocked that it actually took someone
hours to figure this out, but I thought there might be others on the
list who could benefit from my pain ...

add this line to your /etc/fstab:

/dev/fd0	/mnt/floppy	auto	noauto,user,rw,exec,umask=000	0 0

or for a zip disk at hdd4 add:

/dev/hdd4	/mnt/zip	auto	noauto,user,rw,exec,umask=000	0 0

(of course, you have to create the /mnt/zip directory first)

The "umask=000" seemed to be the real fix for my problem.  The gurus
among us probably have a better solution.  Please let me know if the
"fix" I found can be accomplished in a better way.

Have a great day ...

jburke (the handsome one of the two jburkes)  ;)
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