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I recentlly made the step to Sarge and last night as I was trying to listen to some music I observed that I couldn't access my vfat partitions.
How is that possible?
I made no change to the fstab and as the man page says no program will edit this file...I didn't edit it, the progs didn't so want is the problem?
I have all my music on my vfat partition (M$ legacy) and I had to listen music from windoze!!!
I hate it!!!
users:
Allow every user to mount and unmount the file system. This option implies the options noexec, nosuid, and nodev (unless overridden by subsequent options, as in the option line users,exec,dev,suid).
Users could replace user, nosuid is a slightly diffrent option, and would have to be put in as well as user. (but is unecssary with users)
In the options section, add in "gid=<your group name>,uid=<your user number>". That should work. I think the mount commands work slightly differently under woody and sarge. That's what caused the problem...
Yeah. You could also add in the group number of the users group (gid=100, I think). The user part if I recall is also pretty important. Try the group thing first and if that works then great. If not then you'll have to put in the uid option. I recall that there was a time that I didn't have to do this but recently, I did have to. Hence I believe that the newer version of mount works differently. I've always had to specify those options with ntfs, though. Linux is a lot pickier with ntfs. I don't run windows on this computer so I haven't messed around with those settings for a while now.
You may also want to change the "user" option to "users", and ditch the "noexec" and "default" options. I think that's what I had and it worked. At some point I even specified a "umask" option though I don't remember whether that was for the ntfs partition or for the vfat...
umask might be ok, gud might be ok(it doesn't work - at least now), but uid in fstab that's too much!!!!
What if I had a server that shared one partition over samba and I had 100 users that use the parttion?!?!?! that is just too much work (ok, it can be done through scripts) and gets fstab to giant sizes!!!
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