What fstab mount setting do you use to get full access to a vfat drive?

BarkingBonefish · 03-11-2004, 10:08 PM

I have a FAT32 drive being used to share files between win and linux on a dual boot system. I manually edited the fstab to get this drive to mount on linux boot, and used default 0 0 for the setting. Now I cannot change the permissions on the drive to give full access for non-root user name, even when logged in as root. I think this has to do with the mount settings in fstab, but I am not sure.

Any help you could provide is greatly appreciated.

BB

Demonbane · 03-11-2004, 11:01 PM

try umask=0

newinlinux · 03-11-2004, 11:01 PM

my fstab is:

auto,users,rw,umask=000

try this combination.

BarkingBonefish · 03-11-2004, 11:12 PM

I used:

users,umask=000,gid=users

and it mounted nicely on boot, and alternative user login can now access files with full rights.

Thanks again!

chii-chan · 03-12-2004, 12:36 AM

I use this:

defaults,uid=500,gid=500,umask=022

If there is only one user, so better set the uid and gid to that particular user.