----- Original Message -----
From: John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2000 11:16 AM
Subject: Re: [expert] File Permissions
> On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> > Andrew,
> >
> > Write permission for vfat file systems at mount time is only provided
> > to the user that does the mount. So that is what you should do -
> > have the user who wants to write be the one that does the mount and
> > eventual umount.
> >
> > But first as root alter /etc/fstab to make all the vfat mounts noauto
> > (as the installer should have done), then reboot.
> >
> YOU DON'T HAVE TO REBOOT! Just write the edited fstab and
> next time someone goes to mount the drive, it'll be read
> again! About the ONLY time you have to reboot is when
> installing a new kernel!
If it is automounted, just
umount -a
to unmount all but the system partitions, then
mount -a
to put them all back.
Hoyt
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