cant access mounted partition

alaios · 07-25-2005, 10:56 AM

Hi i have just make my partition to be loaded on boot time

Code:

/dev/hda5            /home/alaios/Documents vfat     rw                    1 1
//perasma/mp3        /media/mp3           smbfs      ro,password=''        0 0

Using the two above lines the partitions are correctly mounted at startup.. The only problem now i have is that the first mount line makes the directory inaccesible to the user
I have tried to add the parameter users or user=alaios but then the partition is not mounted on boot time...
What should i do?
-I need the partition to be mounter on startup
-To be accessible from the user alaios.users

/i use suse 9.3
Any suggestion?
Thx

Nathanael · 07-25-2005, 11:06 AM

have you read the man page of mount? the man page will give you opions for vfat mounting, including what needs to be done, for the user to have read/write access to the mounted drive.

you can mount as rood, and try accessing as the user
include all the opions you need (our of mount's man page) and off you go :-)

alaios · 07-26-2005, 07:15 AM

thx but do u mean these options?

Code:

Mount options for vfat
First of all, the mount options for fat are recognized. The dotsOK option is explicitly killed by vfat. Fur‐
thermore, there are

uni_xlate
Translate unhandled Unicode characters to special escaped sequences. This lets you backup and restore
filenames that are created with any Unicode characters. Without this option, a '?' is used when no trans‐
lation is possible. The escape character is ':' because it is otherwise illegal on the vfat filesystem.
The escape sequence that gets used, where u is the unicode character, is: ':', (u & 0x3f), ((u>>6) &
0x3f), (u>>12).

posix Allow two files with names that only differ in case.

nonumtail
First try to make a short name without sequence number, before trying name~num.ext.

utf8 UTF8 is the filesystem safe 8-bit encoding of Unicode that is used by the console. It can be be enabled
for the filesystem with this option. If `uni_xlate' gets set, UTF8 gets disabled.

shortname=[lower|win95|winnt|mixed]

Defines the behaviour for creation and display of filenames which fit into 8.3 characters. If a long name
for a file exists, it will always be preferred display. There are four modes:

lower Force the short name to lower case upon display; store a long name when the short name is not all
upper case.

win95 Force the short name to upper case upon display; store a long name when the short name is not all
upper case.

winnt Display the shortname as is; store a long name when the short name is not all lower case or all
upper case.

mixed Display the short name as is; store a long name when the short name is not all upper case.

The default is "lower".

Nathanael · 07-26-2005, 07:42 AM

Quote:

snippets of man mount concerning fat/vfat

suid Allow set-user-identifier or set-group-identifier bits to
take effect.

uid=value and gid=value
Set the owner and group of all files. (Default: the uid and gid
of the current process.)

umask=value
Set the umask (the bitmask of the permissions that are not
present). The default is the umask of the current process. The
value is given in octal.

dmask=value
Set the umask applied to directories only. The default is the
umask of the current process. The value is given in octal.

fmask=value
Set the umask applied to regular files only. The default is the
umask of the current process. The value is given in octal.

alaios · 07-26-2005, 08:44 AM

Thx a lot

When i ll go home i ll test it

Have a nice day