VFAT not available to users

Swan1 · 06-02-2006, 04:29 PM

I insstalle SUSE 10.0 on a variety of partitions with various filesystems as required by Linux:
--/ on ReiserFS
--/boot on EXT3, because installer refused to put /boot in ReiserFS
--/root on ReiserFS
--/swap on SwapFS
etc., etc.

Additionally, I created and formated one VFAT partition with the intention of giving it to all
the users of the system for their " ~ " directory. I mounted said VFAT partition onto "/fat_home". RESULT:
"root" shows as the owner of "/fat_home", and "root" is also the group to which "/fat_home" belongs. I tried "chown" and "chgrp" commands to change the owner and group to "users" while loged in as "root", AND while "root" is also a member of the group "users", but the system refuses to change ownership and group for "/fat_home".

--What's the problem?
--How do I give my users access to VFAT "/fat_home" from their own login, without the users needing to use "su"?

I want my users to have their home and all their directories and files in that VFAT partition mounted on "/fat_home".

Thanks for your help.

Okie · 06-02-2006, 04:46 PM

what does your /etc/fstab say ?

change default to users in fstab

Brian1 · 06-02-2006, 05:02 PM

Add umask=000 to the fstab line for the partition.
Example:

Code:

/dev/hdk10              /sharevfat              vfat    umask=000,users,auto,owner,rw,dirsync   0 0

Brian1