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[Drow@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Aduanne Carter)]

James Kubecki wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a second hard drive on my machine (/dev/hda1 - my old Windows
> drive) that I would like to access under Linux.  However, I can't seem
> to be able to set it up so that the users have write permissions.
> 
> I've tried the following:
> 
> 1.  I tried (per various newsgroup articles) to add a "umask=777" or
> "umask=0" or "umask=000" option in /etc/fstab, like this:
> 
>         /dev/hda1       /mnt/data                 ext2
> defaults,umask=0 0   0
> 
> but when I do "mount" I get:
> 
>         mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1,
>         or too many mounted file systems
> 

here is my line from /etc/fstab for my fat32 partition that allows users
to write to it.

/dev/hde1    /share   vfat    defaults,gid=100,umask=007   0   0

gid 100 is the 'users' group.  Typing 'id <yournonerootlogin>' will tell
you if you 'users' group is gid 100 as well.


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