Access to vfat drives as user.

win32sux · 05-17-2005, 04:16 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Jaxån
As long as I gave an answer to the question, it should read "Fine". If you put RTFM in your "answer", it should prob. be read as the other interpretation.

RTFM can be interpretated in may ways. Both "Read The Fine Manual" and "Read The F*cking Manual", and both are right answer. That is the answer is in the manual. The most important things you could learn, is where you self can look up the information. But sometimes you can't figure it out, or find it. That's when to ask.

dude, RTFM manual stands for READ THE F*CKING MANUAL - PERIOD... the "F" doesn't stand for "fine" or "fantastic" or "friendly" or "familiar" or "fabulous" or "fancy" or none of that, you don't get to invent your own meaning for the "F" and then expect everyone to somehow magically "know" which meaning you've given the "F" when you bust-out a RTFM on a thread...

terms like "fine/friendly" are used when giving the acronym's definition: it's done that way so people can figure out the letter "F" without needing the ACTUAL "F word" spelled-out for them in the slang dictionary or wherever you got your "fine" idea...

the acronym doesn't change "as long as you gave an answer to the question" or anything like that... please don't use terms like RTFM unless your objective is in fact to be rude... this ain't slashdot, okay?? thanks...

freakyg · 05-17-2005, 04:28 AM

Code:

/dev/hda1   /windows   vfat        defaults,owner,users,rw  0   0

you might try this also.......works fine for my LFS and Slackware partitions...........

wpyh · 05-17-2005, 05:24 AM

Funny debate about RTFM...

It works with and without "defaults". After looking at the man page, well, "defaults" seem to be a bit dangerous... But it doesn't work without umask=0.

As for the directory/files executable bit, you can look up the man page.

win32sux · 05-17-2005, 06:40 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by small_boy22
Is it possible to mount a FAT32 partition and have only the DIRECTORIES to have the execution allowed???
Because when i mount my fat32 partiotion i get everything inside to be executable !!!!!!!!that's bad...

i think you can do it if you specify a dmask and adjust your umask accordingly:

Quote:

umask=value
Set the umask (the bitmask of the permissions that
are not present). The default is the umask of the
current process. The value is given in octal.

dmask=value
Set the umask applied to directories only. The
default is the umask of the current process. The
value is given in octal.

fmask=value
Set the umask applied to regular files only. The
default is the umask of the current process. The
value is given in octal.

Jaxån · 05-17-2005, 04:53 PM

win32sux: Oh, you did a RTFM, how nice

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If you then tell where you get the information, everyone will actually learn something usefull for later use. Nice...
As I wrote earlier, to teach (inform, enlight, whatever) newbies where to look for information is the best you can do to help. Could even be better than givning the answer. But if you don't want to be rude, you should also give an answer.
And the it's was you who interpreted my answer as rude. I think you can give a polite answer with an RTFM in it. And you could be really rude without using RTFM. It's all in the readers eye (and mind, like where beauty is).

And english isn't my first language.

End of Story, I unsubscribe this thread.

win32sux · 05-18-2005, 01:05 PM

anyways, i'd like to point-out to anyone reading this that there's actually THREE separate issues on this thread... i'm posting them again in the hope that it will help get everyone's issues resolved, as right now there's still no confirmation that any of the issues have been resolved even though there have been several replies for all the issues...

the first issue is (obviously) the first post of the thread - the OP hasn't posted again (yet)...

it's the vfat issue:

Quote:

Originally posted by aje
I have two vfat partitions that are shared between slackware and windows. I can access the drives and contents on them fine as root, but not as user. My fstab line for the drives read as follows:

Code:

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

How must I modify this line to access the drive as a user?

the second issue is ntfs-related, posted by wpyh here:

Quote:

Originally posted by wpyh
This is a bit off-topic, but I had to use umask=000 in fstab or I won't be able to access my ntfs partition. Is that ok? I've disabled ntfs write support in the kernel, btw.

the third issue is small_boy22's question regarding directories on vfat:

Quote:

Originally posted by small_boy22
Is it possible to mount a FAT32 partition and have only the DIRECTORIES to have the execution allowed???
Because when i mount my fat32 partiotion i get everything inside to be executable !!!!!!!!that's bad...

IMHO it would be a good idea if we could specify which of the posters (aje, wpyh, and small_boy22) we are addressing when we contribute our two cents on the thread... this way we can have better organization and we will have a better chance of finding solutions to all three issues (in case they haven't already been found)...

oh, and BTW: aje, wpyh, and small_boy22 please don't forget to confirm that your issues have been resolved (and which method resolved them) if that's the case...

just my

...

wpyh · 05-22-2005, 12:34 PM

It seems to be resolved:
/dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3 ntfs ro,noauto,user,umask=0 0 0
thanks

aje · 05-22-2005, 08:43 PM

Sorry I hadn't come back to post whether or not a solution worked. I did a reboot and my fstab was working fine ... Is it normal to need to reboot to sort of "refresh" fstab information? My fstab line for the drive(s) now read:

Code:

/dev/hda1        /windows         vfat        defaults,umask=000        0   0
/dev/hdb1        /media           vfat        auto,rw,umask=000        1   0

slackMeUp · 05-22-2005, 08:53 PM

LOL...

You never remounted the partitions did you?

After making a change in fstab that is?

hehe... I bet not.

win32sux · 05-22-2005, 10:09 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by aje
Sorry I hadn't come back to post whether or not a solution worked. I did a reboot and my fstab was working fine ... Is it normal to need to reboot to sort of "refresh" fstab information? My fstab line for the drive(s) now read:

Code:

/dev/hda1 /windows vfat defaults,umask=000 0 0 /dev/hdb1 /media vfat auto,rw,umask=000 1 0

you wouldn't necessarily need to reboot (although that would work), you'd just need to remount the partitions... in your case:

Code:

umount /windows
umount /media
mount /windows
mount /media