Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3397 mails)

[Ken Schneider <suse-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 08:10 -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> First,
> What does your fstab look like for that entry. It should look something 
> like:
> /dev/hdaX /home vfat auto,users,exec,uid=<your uid>,gid=<your group id>
> 
> Initially, it is important to have exec on so that you can execute the 
> startup scripts. I personally do not think it is a good idea to use a FAT 
> file system as your /home. There are other ways to accomplish what you 
> want. In any case, if that's what you want, then go for it. 
> You can also use /home/<username>/<dirname>
> And make it a subdirectory of your /home/<username> directory. 
> 
> You may want to remove ",users". 

I don't think you can have "users" and "uid=xxxx,gid=xxxx" as they fight
with each other. "users" means to mount with the uid,gid of the person
doing the mounting. The gid,uid means to mount as the specified person,
-not- the one doing the mount.


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Ken Schneider
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