Permissions Problem with FAT32 Drive

lawrencegoodman · 11-11-2003, 09:50 AM

I have created a drive called D in the folder windows. I want to try to change the owner (chown) from the root user to me (lawrencegoodman) because this is becoming a real pain. But I am being told I cannot do this?
Is this because it's a FAT32 formatted drive?
Is there a way around this?

Thanks,
Lawrence

aaa · 11-11-2003, 10:17 AM

For fat32 drives, I think you can do it by adding entries in the /etc/fstab file. Here's an example:
Old line:

/dev/hda1 /mnt/win vfat user,umask=0,auto 0 0

New line:

/dev/hda1 /mnt/win vfat user,umask=0,auto,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0

'user' lets users mount, 'auto' mounts on startup, 'uid=1000' gives ownership to whoever's user id is 1000, 'gid=1000' gives group ownership to the 1000th group.

lawrencegoodman · 11-11-2003, 10:24 AM

So I opened etc/fstab and this is the relevant line (I think):

/dev/hda5 /windows/D vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=iso8859-1,code=437 0 0

How should it be changed?

Thanks!

aaa · 11-13-2003, 10:18 AM

Try

Code:

/dev/hda5 /windows/D vfat users,uid=lawrencegoodman,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=iso8859-1,code=437 0 0

lawrencegoodman · 11-13-2003, 12:23 PM

That seems to have worked. Can't thank you enough. Lawrence