mounted volume can only be accessed by root

EcceVery · 07-31-2004, 02:36 PM

I have a logical FAT32 partition (hda5) that I want everybody to be able to use. Read, write, cerate....whatever. but, only root can access it, other users only see file-listings of what's in the root of the partition.

Here's my fstab file:

Code:

# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>               <dump>  <pass>
/dev/hda1       /               ext3    errors=remount-ro       0       1
/dev/hda2       none            swap    sw                      0       0
/dev/hda5       /mnt/hda5       vfat                            0       0
proc            /proc           proc    defaults                0       0
/dev/fd0        /floppy         auto    user,noauto             0       0
/dev/cdrom      /cdrom          iso9660 ro,user,noauto          0       0

And, what is "dump" and "pass"?

zero79 · 07-31-2004, 02:46 PM

add the options "rw,user,umask=0755" to the <options> column for the vfat entry in /etc/fstab

EcceVery · 08-01-2004, 07:44 AM

nope, permission denied...

k.van.hagen · 08-01-2004, 07:54 AM

Try adding the options uid=<your username>,gid=<your group name>,umask=0027
remount the volume, and try again .

k.van.hagen · 08-01-2004, 07:55 AM

ps. The umask option is in octal, so therefore the permissions have to be reversed: 7=0 etc.

k.van.hagen · 08-01-2004, 07:56 AM

This is my fstab, and works fine.

[CODE]
arrakis:~# cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
/dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda1 /boot ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hda9 /home ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hda7 /tmp ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hda8 /usr ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hda6 /var ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hda10 /data vfat rw,uid=1000,gid=100,umask=0007 0 0
/dev/hda2 /win ntfs ro,uid=1000,gid=100,umask=0007 0 0

/dev/hda3 none swap sw 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

#/dev/hdb /media/dvd iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/dvdrw iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
[\CODE]

EcceVery · 08-01-2004, 08:31 AM

Just made it readable...

Code:

arrakis:~# cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
/dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda1 /boot ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hda9 /home ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hda7 /tmp ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hda8 /usr ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hda6 /var ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hda10 /data vfat rw,uid=1000,gid=100,umask=0007 0 0
/dev/hda2 /win ntfs ro,uid=1000,gid=100,umask=0007 0 0

/dev/hda3 none swap sw 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

#/dev/hdb /media/dvd iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/dvdrw iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto rw,user,noauto 0 0

EcceVery · 08-01-2004, 08:45 AM

yepp, works fine now. thanks.