[SWLUG] file system choices

[Dick Porter]

On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 23:12, Edward Evans wrote:
> fat.  Create it with Windows fdisk (as well as the Windows partition itself) 
> 'cos Win doesn't always recognise partitions made by Linux, even if they are 
> properly labelled as fat.  Then in /etc/fstab include umask=??? in the 
> options.  When the partition is mounted all the files will appear to have uid 
> and gid of root, so either put his username in the root group and give group 
> permissions in the umask (say 002) or give all users full permisions 
> (umask=000).  The files will all have the permissions given by the umask.

A better way would be to use the uid= and/or gid= options to mount, in
/etc/fstab.

- Dick