write permissions for a storage drive

Riichard · 12-28-2003, 09:16 AM

Hi all
Ive added a storage hard drive to my Redhat Linux.
My problem is I can only write to this hard drive as root,
I want to be able to use this drive as temp stuff and mp3s
I believe the settings I need to change are in /etc/fstab, my entry for this drive is;
/dev/hdf1 /mnt/hdf1 vfat defaults 2 1
Is it the 'defaults' bit I need to change?

fatgod · 12-28-2003, 09:34 AM

yeah, have a read of the mount man page, it will tell you what options are available for vfat.

you will replace "defaults" with something like "async,rw,auto,users,gid=share,umask=027" but dont just use that without having a bit of a read up on it first

Edward78 · 12-28-2003, 12:26 PM

vfat user,users,umask=0 0 0 that line should do.

michaelk · 12-28-2003, 02:06 PM

BTW on options see man mount and fstab for additional help
user - only the user that mounts the filesytem can unmount
users - any user can unmount the filesystem.

Riichard · 12-29-2003, 06:55 AM

Thanks for everyones help.
Ive got what Edward78 suggested;
users,umask=0
Files copy across (and delete) to this drive now as user but once copied I get;
Could not change permissions for
/mnt/hdf1/filename
It seems something is still not quite right
Ive tried;
user,users,umask=0
users,umask=0
user,umask=0
users,rw,umask=0
Is more tweaking needed or is this due to the fact that FAT32 support is still alpha ?

michaelk · 12-29-2003, 09:18 AM

Try umask=000. Iv'e read posts where it worked when umask=0 didn't.

Post the permissions of the directory.

Riichard · 12-29-2003, 03:40 PM

Tried umask=000 with the same results ;(
The permissions are odd imho
The storage hard drive has read permissions for user,group,others
and write permissions for user, ownership; user.
yet any files on that drive have all the permissions ticked
but are greyed out and ownership is root?

fatgod · 12-31-2003, 02:30 AM

Thats what you want isn't it?

if you want to change the user and/or group then you can add "uid=me" or "gid=users" to the mount params if you like.

The permissions are greyed out becasuse they cannot be changed as you have set them in the mount options using umask.