Re: [LUG] Laptop woes cont'd

[Tony Atkin <tone_pl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 01 February 2004 20:49, Mark Evans wrote:
> TrevorASansom@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > Now for a query, I did some DVD ripping from Windows XP and saved
> > files to a vfat directory. I can only acces these files from Linux as
> > root and cannot change permissions. Copied them to new partition, as
> > root, and changed permissions and can access these files, why?
>
> Most likely your vfat partition is mounted with something like
>       /dev/hda1       /c      vfat    defaults
>
> This will typically only allow root to access the files.
>
> Change it to someting like
>       /dev/hda1       /c      vfat    defaults,umask=000

Out of curiosity I checked out fstab on my system just to see how SUSE set 
it up and found:
/dev/hda1   /windows/C  vfat  users,gid=users,umask=0002, 
iocharset=iso8859-1,code=437 0 0
which is quite a handful, but seems to work well.

Tony

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