After reboot some windows vfat partitions are not showing up in 'My Computer'. I looked in fstab and there is no line defining a mount point for the partition. Is there a simple way for a user to configure fstab through a GUI interface so that these partitions will show up in 'My Computer'. The user/s are not that familiar with linux. Philip
Philip Washington wrote:
After reboot some windows vfat partitions are not showing up in 'My Computer'. I looked in fstab and there is no line defining a mount point for the partition. Is there a simple way for a user to configure fstab through a GUI interface so that these partitions will show up in 'My Computer'. The user/s are not that familiar with linux.
Given that fstab is owned by root and not supposed to be edited by users, are you sure you want to do that?
On Friday 11 February 2005 10:19, Philip Washington wrote:
After reboot some windows vfat partitions are not showing up in 'My Computer'. I looked in fstab and there is no line defining a mount point for the partition. Is there a simple way for a user to configure fstab through a GUI interface so that these partitions will show up in 'My Computer'. The user/s are not that familiar with linux.
Philip
YaST/System/Partitioner. There, select the partition and hit Edit. In Mount point, type in the desired mounting point. Be sure to select "Do not format" ! Then, click "Fstab options". In the "Arbitr. options" you can add this: gid=xxxx,umask=002 where xxxx is the numeric ID for the "users" group. Or you can create a separate group in which you can put the users with write permissions for that partition, and replace xxxx with this ID. This will make this partition to be mounted on boot, with owner like root:users, and will allow members of group "users" to write in it. Sunny -- Get Firefox http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=10745&t=85
On Friday 11 February 2005 11:33 am, Sunny wrote:
On Friday 11 February 2005 10:19, Philip Washington wrote: <snip>
YaST/System/Partitioner. There, select the partition and hit Edit. In Mount point, type in the desired mounting point. Be sure to select "Do not format" ! Then, click "Fstab options". In the "Arbitr. options" you can add this: gid=xxxx,umask=002
where xxxx is the numeric ID for the "users" group. Or you can create a separate group in which you can put the users with write permissions for that partition, and replace xxxx with this ID.
This will make this partition to be mounted on boot, with owner like root:users, and will allow members of group "users" to write in it. <snip> How well does this work w/ removeable disks? I have a 250gig firewire drive which seems a waste of space as vfat. However it is easily and so far ( fingers crossed ) shows up *almost* immediately upon connection. It also seems terminally stupid to have a drive that large, it has to slow down searches, where the convention of partitioning breaking up the drive seems to speed such things up.. or , I have had one too many mai tai's for lunch <G>
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On Friday 11 February 2005 03:28, jfweber@bellsouth.net wrote:
On Friday 11 February 2005 11:33 am, Sunny wrote:
On Friday 11 February 2005 10:19, Philip Washington wrote:
<snip>
YaST/System/Partitioner. There, select the partition and hit Edit. In Mount point, type in the desired mounting point. Be sure to select "Do not format" ! Then, click "Fstab options". In the "Arbitr. options" you can add this: gid=xxxx,umask=002
where xxxx is the numeric ID for the "users" group. Or you can create a separate group in which you can put the users with write permissions for that partition, and replace xxxx with this ID.
This will make this partition to be mounted on boot, with owner like root:users, and will allow members of group "users" to write in it.
<snip> How well does this work w/ removeable disks? I have a 250gig firewire drive which seems a waste of space as vfat. However it is easily and so far ( fingers crossed ) shows up *almost* immediately upon connection. It also seems terminally stupid to have a drive that large, it has to slow down searches, where the convention of partitioning breaking up the drive seems to speed such things up.. or , I have had one too many mai tai's for lunch <G>
The OP was about vfat partitions. If you decide to go that way (with vfat), just as an addition to what I have wrote, do as Jerry Feldman suggests: <cite> You can click on "Mountable by user" and "Do not mount on system startup". This means that those partitions will not be mounted automatically, and the user may mount them manually. </cite> Actually I have never used a usb removable drive, so I do not know how the auto mounter handles different partitions, etc. Maybe someone else can explain more. Sunny
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Sunny wrote:
On Friday 11 February 2005 10:19, Philip Washington wrote:
This will make this partition to be mounted on boot, with owner like root:users, and will allow members of group "users" to write in it.
Sunny
The problem with this, is that it requires giving root access to the users. Is this advisable?
On Friday 11 February 2005 10:50, James Knott wrote:
Sunny wrote:
On Friday 11 February 2005 10:19, Philip Washington wrote:
This will make this partition to be mounted on boot, with owner like root:users, and will allow members of group "users" to write in it.
Sunny
The problem with this, is that it requires giving root access to the users. Is this advisable?
By default only root has right to mount/umount partitions, or to edit fstab, where this mounting information is stored. So the root is the one who should make the initial setup. Once the necessary entries in fstab are done, there is no need of root password to access the partiton, if you follow the way I set it up. If you have a remote access to that machine, and you are the admin, then you can easily make these changes without giving the root password. Sunny -- Get Firefox http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=10745&t=85
On Friday 11 February 2005 11:19 am, Philip Washington wrote:
After reboot some windows vfat partitions are not showing up in 'My Computer'. I looked in fstab and there is no line defining a mount point for the partition. Is there a simple way for a user to configure fstab through a GUI interface so that these partitions will show up in 'My Computer'. The user/s are not that familiar with linux. YaST/System/Partitioner. It will give you a Warning dialog box, click yes. You will then get a list of partitions and types. For each of the partitions that you want to show up, select it, click on edit, then select a mount point.
Then optionally click on fstab options:.
You can click on "Mountable by user" and "Do not mount on system startup".
This means that those partitions will not be mounted automatically, and the
user may mount them manually.
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Jerry Feldman
Philip Washington wrote:
After reboot some windows vfat partitions are not showing up in 'My Computer'. I looked in fstab and there is no line defining a mount point for the partition. Is there a simple way for a user to configure fstab through a GUI interface so that these partitions will show up in 'My Computer'. The user/s are not that familiar with linux.
Philip
Thanks for the help, all. Just a bit of clarification, the users do have root access to their systems, they just are not familiar with working with linux. Thanks again, Philip
On Sunday 13 February 2005 1:03 pm, Philip Washington wrote:
Thanks for the help, all. Just a bit of clarification, the users do have root access to their systems, they just are not familiar with working with linux.
Thanks again, Philip
Phillip, Re-think giving users root access to their machines especially if they are not that familiar with Linux/Unix/*nix. If they only have user access then they only mess-up that user and not the whole machine. Don't know your environment and your's and your user's experience but I speak from personal experience here... IF (big if) they are coming from a Windows environment now would be the time to get them used to NOT being root/admin. FYI and YMMV, Stan
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