Access a vfat mounted partition

vector · 02-25-2003, 09:17 PM

I've got two HD's. one with windows, and the other with slack. I have windows mounted so I can get music from that drive, but I can only access it as root. I would like to log in under soemthing besides root to listen to music. I've tried chmod'ing it, and chown'ign it, but that didnt work, I cant change ownership, it wont let me. so any ideas??

thanks

Excalibur · 02-25-2003, 09:26 PM

Try adding a mount line to your /etc/fstab similar to something below for the partition.

/dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2 vfat defaults,umask=000 1 0

Change the device to what you need for your partition and mount point as desired. The key bit here is the umask=000 part. That will allow full access to everybody. If the file system is currently mounted it will need to be unmounted and remounted for the change to take effect.

vector · 02-25-2003, 10:54 PM

great! thanks, it work!