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Re: Mounting Vfat Partitions

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Subject: Re: Mounting Vfat Partitions
From: Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 07:19:45 -0600 (CST)
CC: lwhite@apci.net
In-Reply-To: <01C07B4E.8D4133E0.lwhite@apci.net> "from Larry J White at Jan 10,2001 09:44:36 pm"
Organization: Southern Illinois Linux Users Group
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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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- Mounting Vfat Partitions
  - From: Larry J White <lwhite@apci.net>

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