Trouble with mounted drive.

LizardMan · 06-19-2003, 02:02 AM

I have a vfat drive that I use to share files between linux and windows, and for some reason I cant write to it unless Im root. I want normal users to be able to write to it also. I have it listed in fstab as this:

Code:

/dev/hde1            /mnt/hde1            vfat       rw,suid,dev,exec,auto,users,async                 1 1

Anyone know what the problem might be. When I first set it up, I had it set as "defaults" instead of "rw,suid, etc...", but it wouldnt let users unmount it or write to it. Then I set it to just "users" and it wouldnt let users write....

Please help?

saavik · 06-19-2003, 02:45 AM

Hy!
If users can not wirte the dir, maybe its because the rights on
/mnt/hde1
are not enought ?

michaelk · 06-19-2003, 06:58 AM

Have you searched the site yet? This is a frequently asked question.

Add option umask=000

BTW the numbers at the end of the line are for dump and fsck. Change them to 0 0 for FAT32.

See man pages fstab and mount for further info.

LizardMan · 06-19-2003, 05:40 PM

Thanks, the umask option seems to have worked. Sorry if many people have asked this before. I looked through the hardware forum a bit but it didnt seem like there was anything similar. Thanks again.