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Old 08-30-2003, 02:53 PM   #1
floodland_uk
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Mount file permissions ??

I've mounted a Fat32 drive and can access it fine when logged on as root, but when I access it from another user I cannot write to the disk

can you please help cos I'm tearing my hair out here!!!!

Ian
 
Old 08-30-2003, 02:54 PM   #2
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show output from:
cat /etc/fstab
 
Old 08-30-2003, 03:02 PM   #3
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You'll need a

umask=000

value - a typical line would look like this:

/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat defaults,umask=000 0 0
 
  


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