umask=0 is the key option here. FAT doesnt store permissions data so when you mount a FAT drive the permissions are set the same for all files on the drive. umask=0 will give rwx to ALL users for ALL files on the drive. You could use the uid=user gid=group options to have more control over permissions, or learn how the octal umasks work. Heres a rundown...
basic layout -- umask=0123 0= simply tells umask you are giving it octal values, ALWAYS 0. 1= sets permission for user [file owner] 2= sets permission for group 3= sets permission for others //octal values 7=[no permission] 6=x 5=w 4=wx 3=r 2=rx 1=rw 0=rwx so umask=0000 is rwx for everyone, 0777 denies everything, 0022 is the usual setting, giving the owner full rwx, and both the group and others rx. Hence vfat sux for security, but we know that... check out bash# man 8 mount HTH, Nick On December 17, 2003 06:51 am, Ray wrote: > Hi, Sjoman > Try mounting this way (below are the lines for fstab file): > /dev/hda2 /mnt/fat32drive1 vfat > user,showexec,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 > /dev/hda3 /mnt/fat32drive2 vfat > user,showexec,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 > > For me it works > > Regards > Ray > > Sjoman wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm trying to set up my fstab to mount two Fat32 drives in read-write > > mode. Right now I can only seem to get them to mount them in > > read-only mode. > > > > These are the lines in question: > > /dev/hda2 /mnt/fat32drive1 vfat user,rw,noauto 0 0 > > /dev/hda3 /mnt/fat32drive2 vfat user,rw,noauto 0 0 > > > > Any suggestions? > > > > Thanks, > > sjoman > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > >_______________________________________________ > >clug-talk mailing list > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca -- Nick W (nickw77 at shaw.ca) Registered Linux User #324288 (http://counter.li.org) MSN Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo: foolish_gambit ICQ: 303276221 _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
