Re: Did you know ...

[lwhite@apci.net]

This is pretty much the solution Steve Pricthard provided me when I had the 
same problem several months ago.

Althought it worked liked a charm, I never did understand what the umask option 
did/does.


Quoting "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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