vfat partition user permissions

trawler · 10-25-2005, 05:50 AM

I know this has been talked about (numerous times) before, but for some reason, even though i seem to have my permissions set right, i cant write to my vfat partition, unless i log in as root...

This is my permissions section of the fstab file:
auto,user,umask=000 0 0

As far as i know, this should allow all users to read/write, but for some reason it doesnt.

What am i doing wrong?

xgreen · 10-25-2005, 05:59 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by trawler

auto,user,umask=000 0 0

i think "user" should be "users" i.e.

auto,users,umask=000 0 0

trawler · 10-25-2005, 06:13 AM

well... even though i had same permissions on a former vfat partitions and it worked, i tried correcting it same way you suggested and it still didn work...

Any ideas?

trawler · 10-25-2005, 06:34 AM

I dont know, maybe itś a bug, but for some reason - changing it to

auto,defaults,umask=000 0 0

finally got it to mount (with user permissions) , after getting tons of -wrong fs type- errors, etc...

As long as it works