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Old 11-14-2004, 11:18 PM   #1
brainlesspinkey
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enable regular users to write a mount


Hello, i have a vfat partition, and it is mounted to /mnt/casey The problem is, only root can write in it. How do i enable writing there? i tried to chmod 777 /mnt/casey, but i think i need to do something to the fstab. Thanks for any help
 
Old 11-14-2004, 11:52 PM   #2
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Hi
here's a copy of my fstab for vfat and as used here at the forums:
/dev/hda8 /mnt/OTHERS vfat umask=000,users 1 0
 
  


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