mount permissions

chrismiceli · 06-13-2004, 08:37 PM

I am trying to change a mount partition's permisson to be accesible by a user. But it doesn't do anything when it is mounted, and I run any of these commands

Code:

chmod 777 win
chown michael win
chgrp users win

none of them change anything. I umounted the drive and it changed it to 777 permission but when I go back I lose those permissions. How do I allow a user to go into that partition?

michaelk · 06-13-2004, 08:50 PM

I assume from your post it is a windows partition your trying to change permissions on. The chmod command does not work with windows partitions.

You need to add umask=000 option to the fstab entry if it is a FAT32 and umask=222 for NTFS. You should be able to find lots of previous posts asking the same question if you search this website.