Nick Guenther wrote:
I dual boot OpenBSD with Windows and have a third partition for data which is mounted on /home. The data partition is FAT32 since that's the only type that both OSes support well.
I am not rally happy to use FAT partitions from OBSD. There has been recently fixed issues, and I seem to stumble over corruptions from time to time, and although I cannot be sure that FAT is to blame, I have no issues when using non-FAT partitions.
See the archives for details.
So my two questions are: 1) how can I set the permissions on /home|why can't I set them?
You cannot. It is not supported by the file system.
2) how can I make it mount /home under a different user than root? I don't see where I can pass options like that from fstab? Should I just edit /etc/rc or whatever and find the mount section and add in my explicit mount_msdos call?
From my /etc/fstab: /dev/wd0p /data msdos rw,-l,-m=777,nodev,nosuid,noauto 0 0 You can add switches like "-m" above. /Alexander
