David wrote:
On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, John P Verel wrote:I am read/writing to a vfat partition just fine. In /etc/fstab, I have the following line:
>I'm finding impossible to change ownership and permissions on my >vfat partititon. Even as root, I get denied.
You can only set the user/group ownership for the whole filesystem, and only at mount time. FAT can't handle unix filesystem semantics.
David.
/dev/hda4 /mnt/share vfat gid=share,umask=02 0 0
The mount point looks like this:
drwxrwxr-x 5 root share 4096 Dec 31 1969 /mnt/share
Then I add users to the "share" group and they have read/write/execute permission on this filesystem. Works fine for sharing data between Windows and Linux on a dual boot system.
The umask=02 option causes *all* files and directories on this filesystem to be mode 755. The gid=share option causes *all* files and directories to have their group set to share. The root user owns all the files and directories because uid=root is the default.
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Danial M. Howard--howadani at isu.edu--(208) 282-3097
IT Systems Programmer, Computing and Communications
Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho, USA
