Okay, I'm not even sure HOW let alone WHERE to look up THIS situation:

I am running Red Hat 9.0 on my 4 yr old Sony PCV-R545DS which contains 2 hard drives:
hda> 20GB (10gb for Windows 98, 10GB for RH 9.0)
hdb> 80GB to hold all of my documents, files, pics, etc.

When I boot up in RH, I can see the 2nd HD (the 80GB, which is loaded into my /home/documents folder) just fine. I can access any of the files just fine( sort of ).

THE PROBLEM:
Only ROOT has read/write privaleges for the partition, everybody else has read-only!
Permissions for that folder are drwxr-xr-x

TRIED:
I have tried chown and fstab but once I mount the drive it automatically goes back to the above setting!

Since ROOT has normal access to it all then I know that at least it isn't an issue with not connecting to thedrive.

Since it changes back when the drive is mounted (overwritting any changes done) I wonder if it's something with the way the HD is mounted or a setting with the HD itself ? ! ? !


Any suggestions would be helpful. I think I've stumped my "local Linux Guru" who has helped me tremendously so far!


Thanks ~Andrew the Newbie

I refer you to this thread.

There may be other options you want to set; check the manpages for mount(8) and fstab(5). For example if it's a multi-user system and you want certain people to have such access, set the gid accordingly.

HTH.

p.s. your thread title should be more descriptive and less... "I triple dog dare you!" It's probably somewhere in the rules of this board .

Hi!

Try mounting your windows partition with

/dev/hda1 /mnt/win vfat user,exec,dev,suid,rw,umask=000,auto 0 0

in your fstab. The "umask=000" part gives non-privileged users write access.

Thanks!
I tried the /dev/hda1 /mnt/win vfat user,exec,dev,suid,rw,umask=000,auto 0 0 edition to the fstab and that seems to have worked beautifully!

I will try to be more descriptive in my future posts, but you have to admit, it was difficult to resist, wasn't it?

I will try this in a minute to fix my similar problem, but what do the other options do?

I think, and please correct me if I'm wrong, the parameters are ...

/dev/hda1 /mnt/win vfat user,exec,dev,suid,rw, umask=000,auto 0 0
...is the partition address

/dev/hda1 /mnt/win vfat user,exec,dev,suid,rw, umask=000,auto 0 0
...is where you want to mount the directory to

/dev/hda1 /mnt/win vfat user,exec,dev,suid,rw, umask=000,auto 0 0
...is the format the partition is in (vfat for Windows' FAT32)

/dev/hda1 /mnt/win vfat user,exec,dev,suid,rw, umask=000,auto 0 0
...are the user groups granted access (I use "user" and "root" unless somebody tells me "BAD! BAD DOGGIE!")

/dev/hda1 /mnt/win vfat user,exec,dev,suid,rw, umask=000,auto 0 0
...are options (I think "auto" is what says to mount it during start-up)

/dev/hda1 /mnt/win vfat user,exec,dev,suid,rw, umask=000,auto 0 0
...I haven't a clue

Don't know if that helps you at all, but this is what I have figured out so far.

~Andrew