Pleaase help me to mount VFAT drive to everyone

kikkubey · 10-19-2005, 11:06 PM

My problem:

I am using mandrake 9.2 and now I install a new hdd.
Only root can read and write in this hdd even I have used root to change or changroup.

Could I use "mount" command directly to allow everyone access this drive WITHOUT restart my computer and without set this drive to fstab ?

I've tried "mount -t vfat -o suid ",users but It didn't work !

Thank you very much,

Bruce Hill · 10-20-2005, 09:41 AM

Welcome to LQ!

You really should read all of "man mount" and "man fstab" as you are trying
to do something which is not the design of the GNU/Linux operating system.
From "man mount" (the manual page for the mount command):

Quote:

(iii) Normally, only the superuser can mount file systems. However, when fstab con-
tains the user option on a line, anybody can mount the corresponding system.

I use these options to mount my vfat partitions so all users can read/write to them:

Code:

/dev/hda2        /Storage         vfat        users,umask=1000,rw,auto   1   0

tedfordgif · 10-20-2005, 08:36 PM

Actually, it sounds well within the design of Linux. You said you could mount it as vfat already, so probably you just need to add the umask option, since it's a vfat partition.

Code:

mount -t vfat -o 'umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1' /dev/device /mnt/dir

walterbyrd · 10-21-2005, 07:40 AM

There are probably other ways to do it, but - after a lot futzing - this works for me.

/dev/hda7 /home vfat rw,user,suid,umask=0000 0 0