hey ive mounted a fat32 hard drive but am haiving problems with, i can make and delete files but when i put a file on it its automaticly a root user only file! so i carnt open it directly of the disk i have to move it then open it otherwise i carnt open it can someone help me please.

Hi Devboy

Can you post the line your using to mount the drive?

yeah its:

/dev/hdb5 /mnt/downloads vfat defaults,owner,umask=000,gid=100 0 0

The fat32 file system does not support users, groups, and permissions. Linux "fakes" such things by giving every file the same permissions and owner as the directory the partition is mounted on. So you set the mountpoint directory to whatever user and permissions you want and all the other files will automatically follow.

If you make the mountpoint somewhere in /home/user then you can make user the owner. If you make root the owner you could set the permissions to 777. Or whatever setup suites your needs best.

When working with the mountpoint permissions you may have to unmount the device, change the permissions, and then remount the device.

Hi Devboy

Try

/dev/hdb5 /mnt/downloads vfat auto,rw,umask=000 0 0

nope dident work still stuck and very frustrated.

Hi Devboy

What exact access have you currently got to the files on the mounted partition?

i can copy them etc its just when i go to open them of the hard drive its self! it says somit like carnt open you may not have permission.

Hi Devboy

Can you post your /etc/fstab file ?

and try

/dev/hdb5 /mnt/downloads vfat defaults,umask=000 0 0

Try this:

/dev/hdb5 /mnt/downloads vfat auto,uid=500,rw 0 0

change the uid if yours is not 500... I think there is a gui tool to manage users and groups in Redhat 9.0...

p/s I've tried mounting it under my home directory /home/khoyee/win before, it works without problems. Perhaps you can try that instead of /mnt/downloads if you have any problems.

sorry about the late reply but ive been very busy and thankyou veyr much Koyi thats done the trick nicly.