how to give ordinary users write permission to fat32

LeftyAce · 01-15-2006, 01:56 PM

I decided to format my windows partition in fat32 so that I can read AND write from linux, and I added this line in fstab

Code:

/dev/sda1       /c              vfat    rw,users        0 0

It is mounted automatically, and normal users can read its contents. However, normal users can't write to /c at all. (and when I do ls -l it shows that root owns everything). Normal users CAN unmount and then remount /c. After doing this normal users have write access.

My question is, how can I have it be mounted automatically with rw access for normal users?

zhelezov · 01-15-2006, 02:09 PM

FAT file systems don't deal with any file permissions...i suggest modifying fstab with the following:

Code:

/dev/sda1       /c          vfat    defaults,umask=0000 0 0

This would give everyone full access to that drive, so be careful if that's not exactly what you wish!

Good luck!
vlado

LeftyAce · 01-15-2006, 02:35 PM

Thank you! That worked perfectly. I'm the only user on my system, so I'm not concerned with "all users" having access.

zhelezov · 01-15-2006, 03:03 PM

just because i just saw you didn't have 'auto' option enabled in the original posting...

one more remark - 'defaults' includes automounting at boot time, so you may replace it by anything...you feel useful.