Mounting Problems

kosh42 · 05-21-2004, 03:45 PM

OK, I have the following in my fstab:

Code:

/dev/sda1               /mnt/cardreader         auto    sync,noauto,user,exec,rw 0 0 #HOTPLUG B3Fu.Ua$
/dev/hda1               /mnt/win95              auto    auto,user,exec,ro 0 0
/dev/hda5               /mnt/winfiles           auto    auto,user,exec,ro 0 0

This allows me to right click on my desktop and mount any of these three... For some reason, the win95 and winfiles mounts are only readable if I am logged in as root. I have changed the permissions, but everytime I issue the mount command, it changes the properties to read and execute only for root. Any ideas why?

Also, the card reader will mount and I can read and delete files. However, it will only let me write a meg of data on the card before it says its full... And its a 128Mb card

Any ideas on this also?

Many thanks,

Tim The Noob...

marghorp · 05-21-2004, 04:05 PM

Try changing auto into vfat and all that follows into default:

/dev/hda5 /mnt/winfiles vfat( or ntfs or whatever) default 0 0

This will give you read and execute privilege to all and write privilege only to root, so your win partition won't get screwed up.

Peace!

Vlad-A · 05-21-2004, 04:09 PM

You have to set the access rights for your windows partitions with umask.
This is not done by simply changing the access rights of the mountpoint.

So add umask=0000 to the lines with the mount options for the windows partitions
in order to allow ANYONE to read and write from/to the windows partitions.

OK, since you are mounting read only, umask=0222 is the right option.

Better:
I suggest you group all valid users in a group. Usually they are grouped per default into a group called "users".
Find the group id of users by loging in as a non-root user and typing
id

let's say this gid=100

then add following to the mount options in fstab

gid=100, umask 0007

This will allow only the members of the "users" group to read/write and execute
from/to your windows partition.

In your case, since you mount read-only it could be, e.g.:

/dev/hda1 /mnt/win95 auto auto,gid=100, umask 0227,user,exec,ro 0 0

kosh42 · 05-22-2004, 02:12 AM

Right... I found the problem with the card reader was that I was deleting files and they were going to the .Trash-user directory on the card, thus leaving no space. Is there a way to stop this hapening? I don't want to su in every time I delete files to the delete the trash...

Still playing with the Windows partitions

Cheers,

Tim