On Monday 23 August 2004 22:10, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* subs@spiroswrites.com
[08-23-04 14:44]: I tried the same thing under SuSE 9.1, creating a FAT partition which Win XP sees as E:. It shows up in SuSE as /windows/D/, but it's only writable by root. chmod to add writability for other users claims to succeed, but doesn't do anything. I thought /windows/D/ might be a symlink, but that doesn't seem to be it.
What am I missing? How can this directory be made writable by all users?
look in /etc/fstab for the line for /windows/D/ see if you have 'user' instead of 'users'
if you do, change it and you should be able to mount/read/write as a normal user vs root.
er, no. The difference between 'user' and 'users' is who gets to mount and umount the partition. With 'user', a user can mount it, and root or the same user and umount it. With 'users', a user can mount it, and any user can umount it. The option in fstab to look for is uid, if only a specific user should be able to write to it, or gid if a whole group should. umask is interesting as well. "umask=000" would give everyone permission to do anything.