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I have slackware 9.1 installed on my machine. I have some files i want to get hold on to in 2 of my vfat formated hard drives. i can read is as root but NOT as user. I tried a lot of stuff like chmod but i doesn't help. i changed some attributes in fstab but it didn't work either. To be honest, i don't understand how fstab/mtab works. All i want is that it is possible for me as user to read these partitions. Any suggestions? thanks
(so, change the owner to user), and umount / mount them again as the user you want to have access to them. You should have full access to the filesystems than.
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Originally posted by freeindy thanks a million. works just fine.
Will it be auto mounted when i log in as user?
indy
No, unless you put the mount commands in your .profile or .bashrc (or whichever file is appropriate for your shell), or in your X session script if you login graphically. But be sure to add some logic to detect whether or not the fs is already mounted, or you'll have a whole bunch of useless mount commands
Another option is to set up an automounter on these file systems, so they get mounted the moment you try to access them.
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