reg hughson wrote:

I have a vfat partition (mounted via fstab with default options) that I want to allow all user accounts to be able to write to. The mount point (/dos) that it is mounted under is owned by root with rx permission for group and other. No matter how I (as root) try to chmod this directory and all of its subdirectories to +w for all users (for eg. chmod -R a+w /dos), it just will not change from it's default permissions. Am I missing something here?

You're missing the magic incantation - the one that's intuitively obvious to the most casual observer <s>. On the fstab line for the partition, include among the attributes umask=0 and good things will happen! Paul Abrahams -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/