permisions with subdirs of a fat32 drive
 

hi, im hoping to give a regualr user access to just one subdir on a fat32 drive without giving permission to the whole drive.
is it possible to do that?
can you mount a subdir of a drive without mounting the whole thing?

edit: im on fedora core 1

Re: permisions with subdirs of a fat32 drive
 

Yes, you can mount to any directory you want. You just have to use the appropriate mount command and know the path to the location you want in terms of /dev.

>Yes, you can mount to any directory you want.

I think that what the original poster wants is to mount an arbitrary subdirectory of the vfat filesystem, not mount to an arbitrary subdirectory.

In answer to the original question, no: I'm not aware of any way to do that. Suggest you use a more modern filesystem than fat32: something with real permissions storage.

unfortunately reformatting is not an option right now.

to hopefully clarify

can i do something like

mount /dev/hda/myMP3dir /mnt/accessableToAllUsers

but not have the whole drive accessable?

it doesnt have to be done through mounting, thats just what came to my mind. any ideas?