David, To quote from the excellent book Linux, Installation, Configuration, Use by Michale Kofler "The options gid=n, uid=n, and umask=m can be used to preset access priviliges for files. This makes sense for files sytems in which this information cannot be stored or cannot be evaluated by Linux (DOS, Windows, OS/2). Without the use of this option, DOS files are owned by root; the files can be read by all users, but only modified by root. The three options allow more liberal access." Back when I had a dual boot system, I had the following entry in my fstab /dev/hda8 /windows/D vfat uid=500,user 0 0 This automatically mounted my vfat D drive and let me modify it. Mike
No just vfat on another partition, same machine
heres a snip from my fstab,
/dev/hda5 /windows/E vfat noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hda6 /windows/F vfat noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hda7 /windows/G vfat auto,user 0 0 /dev/hdb5 /windows/H vfat noauto,user 0 0
I can't write to /windows/G but after clicking my desktop icon for /windows/H (mounting it) I can write to H, and so on.
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