[Gllug] Changing permissions on removable media

[John Winters]

John G Walker wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 18:56:11 +0000 John Winters <john at sinodun.org.uk>
> wrote:
[snip]
>> When you mount a FAT partition on a Linux PC you can ascribe a
>> notional owner at the time of mounting, but you can't then change it
>> (short of remounting) because there's nothing to change.  You
>> probably need to give it a suitable umask when you mount it so that
>> any user can read/write it.
> 
> How would I make this happen, given that it seems to be just detected
> at boot time?

An entry in /etc/fstab suggests itself.  See the FAT section in "man 
mount" for the details.

John
-- 
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at gllug.org.uk
http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug