[102223] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Changing group and ownership on vfat partitions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vidiot)
Tue Dec 1 22:56:23 1998
From: Vidiot <brown@ftms.COM>
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Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 21:56:06 -0600 (CST)
In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981201202837.0092ad50@cnmailsvr.nmsu.edu> from "Kent R. Frazier" at Dec 1, 98 08:42:33 pm
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>I have a stand alone workstation with two HDs. One is Win95 the other Linux
>(RH5.1 soon to be 5.2) Linux is configured to only see my "G" drive on
>Win95 ( it is /G in Linux, just to keep it simple) and it's file system is
>listed as vfat in fstab. I think that is the correct file, I'm doing this
>from memory and I'm still a newbie. This partition is used only for data
>and I would like to be able to write to it without su-ing to root. I have
>tried to change the ownership and group for this without any luck. I have
>also tried to mark it as writable to all (chmod a+w /G) again with no
>success. Is there something I'm doing wrong, or can this not be changed?
It can't be changed because MicroSh!t Windoze doesn't such a things as
users, owners, permission bits, etc. What you can do is change your
fstab to allow anyone to write to the filesystem. For example, for my
Windoze Zip disks, I have the following entry:
/dev/sda4 /dos/zip vfat noauto,user,uni_xlate,defaults 0 0
The only ones you need are user and defaults. Don't put in noauto, otherwise
the hard disk won't mount at boot time :-)
Enjoy.
MB
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