Permission denied to drive when mounted at boot

wr3ck3d · 12-29-2003, 11:44 PM

I have a small FAT32 drive. When it gets mounted at boot, i cannot get into it with a normal user. All I have to do is unmount it, and remount as a normal user and everything is fine. Here is the fstab entry

/dev/hdb1 /mnt/storage vfat users,rw 0 0

Is there anything I could do to have it ready on boot without having to remount it?

thanks

adz · 12-30-2003, 12:32 AM

You could specify a umask and/or group ID settings. Options are umask=<something between 000 and 777 inclusive> and gid=<group name or number>. You don't NEED the group id bit but it can make the thing more secure or fine tune it.

320mb · 12-30-2003, 03:38 AM

Code:

/dev/hdb1 /mnt/storage vfat noauto,users,rw 0 0

You can set it to NOT mount at boot, and your user will be able mount and umount whenever you want.