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. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge

On Tuesday 26 April 2005 15:00, Ken Schneider wrote:

"users" means to mount with the uid,gid of the person doing the mounting.

No it doesn't. It means that any local user can both mount and unmount the partition. Without either it or "user", root would have to do the mounting and unmounting.

On Tuesday 26 April 2005 14:10, Jerry Feldman wrote: //snip

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".

First,I agree with Jerry about /home. Here is what I am doing in daily practice : I have a Windows/Linux setup with a "regular" ext3-home under Linux. As a kind of bridge between Linux and Windows I have a FAT32 partion, which is registered in fstab as : /dev/hda6 /windows/D vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=utf8 0 0 So any data that I really want to share between Linux and Windows is stored on /windows/D. All Linux-specific userdata still resides in the Linux genuine /home. Works like a charm. Cheers, -- Jan Elders the Netherlands http://www.xs4all.nl/~jrme/ "Home of the Network Acronyms"