Non Super Users can not access VFAT Partition

shane25119 · 09-10-2004, 11:01 PM

Hi All,
I just set up a dual booting system. It has a partition for Windoze XP and a partition for SuSe 9.1
It also has a shared partition which is for stuff. Problem is.... in Linux only root can write to this partition. Regular users can read and execute, just not write. I have tried to look for chmod information; but nothing seems to work. I tried to change the permissions in KDE graphically, but that is also futile.

btw: the partition is mounted at /shared

Any help is greatly appreated

Shane

irfanhab · 09-10-2004, 11:09 PM

go in fstab

add the 'owner' option in the concerned line
like this
/dev/hda1 /mnt/D vfat defaults, owner 0 0

Electronkz · 09-10-2004, 11:13 PM

Did you try editing /etc/fstab
If not:
then edit it,
here is an example of one entry for my /etc/fstab

Code:

/dev/hda1               /mnt/windows/win_c      vfat    rw,auto,umask=0000,users,exec 0 0

Note that "rw" stands for read & write and "users" allow all users to acces the partition,
Before editing fstab make sure you create the directory where you want to mount it, for example in my case it is /mnt/windows/win_c .
If you have a ntfs partition, then you probably dont want to write to it, it is not safe yet.
You can search www.google.com/linux for more information about fstab.
Hope this helps,

shane25119 · 09-10-2004, 11:15 PM

That did not work...... i think this is because root is the owner of the directory. Any furthur advice is thanked for in advance.... btw: here is my fstab

Code:

/dev/hdd1            /                    reiserfs   acl,user_xattr        1 1
/dev/hdd4            /shared              vfat       defaults, owner              0 0
/dev/hdd2            /windows/D           vfat       users,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/hdd3            swap                 swap       pri=42                0 0
devpts               /dev/pts             devpts     mode=0620,gid=5       0 0
proc                 /proc                proc       defaults              0 0
usbfs                /proc/bus/usb        usbfs      noauto                0 0
sysfs                /sys                 sysfs      noauto                0 0
/dev/cdrecorder      /media/cdrecorder    subfs      fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0

shane25119 · 09-10-2004, 11:23 PM

i tried the suggestion about editing fstab.... and quite simply the drive would not mount..... I mounted it manually and it was just the same old problem.

Electronkz · 09-10-2004, 11:28 PM

add "rw" to the /dev/hdd2 Line.
see if it works,

michaelk · 09-11-2004, 12:13 AM

Make sure the mount point i.e. /windows/d has the correct permissions when the filesystem is unmounted.

The simplest fstab is
/dev/hdd2 /windows/D vfat users,umask=000 0 0

umask is the opposite of chmod. umask=000 means read / write for all.

shane25119 · 09-11-2004, 11:25 AM

micheal, that suggestion worked wonderfully. Thank you all very much for your help!

Shane