Re: user,group access to dos vfat files

[Mike List <troll@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Robert A. Wade wrote:
> 
> Success!  Thanks for your input, but, alas, answers supplied didn't
> solve the problem....
> 
> Trying to chmod a dos partition just doesn't work, at least in RH 5.1
> or 5.2.  Those settings must be changed (apparently) at mount time.
> Rather than having two dos partitions user mountable (and modifying
> each member of the family's .bash_profile) I really wanted to get the
> fstab settings to work.  It seems RH defaults to perm=755 even though
> I had perm=770 in the fstab setting.  What finally worked was the
> following:
> 
> /dev/hda1  /dos/c  vfat conv=auto,uid=500,gid=500,umask=007 0 0
> 
> where gid=me gid=family group
> 
> Now, why does umask=007 work, but not perm=770?
> 
> Have  great Thanksgiving everyone...
> 
> Robert
 I don't have it that way anymore, but I did have write access for my
dosfs which is specified in /etc/fstab. Don't remember the params but a
quick read of "man fstab" will get ya there, I'm sure.

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-Mike List