On Saturday 04 February 2006 16:57, Randall R Schulz wrote:
All true, but there is one option available that may help the OP. FAT partitions can be mounted with user and group ID options that make all the files and directories on that file system apear to bear the specified user and group IDs.
To do this, include the uid=UUU and gid=GGG options in the mount table or on the mount command line. UUU and GGG are numeric user and group IDs, resp.
I've known, in theory, that this can be done but haven't had the need to try it. Since we're on this topic, maybe we can cover a couple of related points, too? On my system: l from / for /windows: drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 240 2005-11-13 10:08 windows/ under /windows, I have three FAT32 partitions, all mounted the same way. Here is my /etc/fstab entry for Windows "C:" /dev/hda2 on /windows/C type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,gid=100,umask=0002,utf8=true) (note utf8=true) and l: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 2005-11-13 10:08 c -> C/ drwxrwxr-x 12 root users 4096 1969-12-31 19:00 C/ I can read/write as both user and root. How would the OP modify his entry, exactly? Why is the date shown as "1969-12-31"? Is having utf8 set "true" a problem? TIA & regards, - Carl