[Gloucs] [Fwd: fstab issues!]

[Rob Saunders]

If you're still looking for the answer (or anyone else is interested)...

Chances are you will only want to access your win98 partition as a 
single (linux) user, so use the uid and gid mount options. My fstab 
entry for my C drive is as follows:

/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows/c vfat defaults,umask=002,uid=robs,gid=users 0 0

which mounts the c drive on /mnt/windows/c and sets the owner/uid to 
robs and the group to users. I've then got read/write access to all files...

HTH

Rob

Francis Barton wrote:
> Er... just picked up this email off the lug.org.uk server - it had been
> sent to the wrong address and was just sitting there.
> 
> Matthew - hope you don't mind me sending this one on to the list even 8
> months after you sent it.
> 
> Hope the problem is either already fixed, or soon about to be by someone
> responding to the query!
> 
> Francis
> 
> -----Forwarded Message-----
> From: Matthew Macdonald-Wallace <matthew at truthisfreedom.org.uk>
> To: mailma at gloucs.lug.org.uk
> Subject: fstab issues!
> Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:05:51 +0100
> 
> All,
> 
> I've just installed Gentoo 1.4, its great, but I can't mount my win98
> drive unless i'm root!
> 
> My fstab has the entry:
> 
> /mnt/windows /dev/hda1 vfat auto,users 0 0
> 
> which I think is correct, but I still get a permissions failure when I
> try to cd to the dir.  Wierd whing is that XMMS will list the files but
> not the directory...
> 
> All help appreciated
> 
> Matt
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