Slackware 9.1 user needs help...!!!

John Silva · 10-29-2003, 08:33 AM

Hi!

I have just burned and installed slackware 9.1 but being used to RH 9 i now can't find how to do some things or why things work so differently. Now my main problem is that i'm not able to cd to a fat partition with a regular account, only as root. so, i tried loging as root and changing permissions on the partition (/mnt/drive.d) but when i use chmod it won't change anything. Can u please enlighten me on this matter. thx in advance for your help.

Best regards,

John Silva

shanenin · 10-29-2003, 08:42 AM

One way you could solve your problem would be to add this line to your /etc/fstab

/dev/hda7 /mnt/vfat vfat umask=000 1 0 (this is what I use)

but change the location and mount point to yours. The umask=000 will give everyone full access read, write, and execute. This will also get mounted automatically at boot.

shanenin · 10-29-2003, 08:50 AM

if your partition is already mounted, you will have to reboot to get the new permissions working. I don't know of an other way.

aaa · 10-29-2003, 09:53 AM

The other way is remounting: 'mount /dev/<win> /mnt/drive.d -o remount'.

shanenin · 10-29-2003, 09:59 AM

thanks. That was so obvious too. I knew their had to be a better way

John Silva · 10-29-2003, 10:46 AM

Well, i tried using the umask=000 and it works now! perhaps some of u can tell me what that mask means and what are the possible values for it Thank u all for your help!

Best regards

John silva

aaa · 10-29-2003, 11:01 AM

'umask=000' sets the default permissions for Windows drives to rwxrwxrwx. Since they don't support permissions, you have to specify them here. Values are the same used for the chmod command; to change permissions with chmod to rw-rw-rw-, you would run 'chmod 666 <file>'. For the Win drive, you would put 'umask=666'. The numbers are conjured like this:

For rwxrwxrwx:
r+w+x r+w+x r+w+x - This yields '777'
4+2+1 4+2+1 4+2+1

For rw-rw-rw-:
r+w+- r+w+- r+w+- - This yields '666'
4+2+0 4+2+0 4+2+0

John Silva · 10-29-2003, 11:35 AM

hey,

thank u very much for your explanation, i'm still trying to get a grip on how linux really works, i used RedHat 9 for about 3 months so i thought it was time to go and get a more complex but also more powerfull distro and today i installed Slackware 9.1 but all the principles i used in RedHat 9 don't seem to work in Slackware so i'm quite a bit lost. thx for your help

Best regards,

John Silva

shanenin · 10-29-2003, 11:47 AM

so does umask=777 the same as umask=000 ? I must be missing something in your explanation.

Tinkster · 10-29-2003, 11:55 AM

Quote:

so does umask=777 the same as umask=000

Nope, it's the complement. You're locking
out EVERYONE :)

I'd suggest reading
man umask

Man, btw, is one of the most important
linux commands, and every n00b should
make himself comfortable with it's usage,
so a
man man
is highly recommended ;)

man
man -k
man -k <searchterm> | grep <narrowing down>

Cheers,
Tink

aaa · 10-29-2003, 12:03 PM

So why does putting 'umask=0' in the fstab work? Wouldn't that shut out everyone?

Tinkster · 10-29-2003, 02:07 PM

Read the man pages yourself mate,
all I'd do is quoting them but I can't
be bothered...

Cheers,
Tink