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Re: Mounting Vfat Partitions



Larry J White said:
> The problem is that /f and /g have permissions of 755
> allowing only root to write to the two partitions.  I want all users to be 
> able to write to /f and /g.

Add "umask=0" to the options field (4th field) of /etc/fstab for each
vfat filesystem.  (If they currently say "defaults", just change that
to "rw,umask=0".)

There are various other useful options for FAT filesystems.  See the
mount(8) man page.  (Search for "Mount options for fat".)

Steve
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