[102253] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Changing group and ownership on vfat partitions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Hazelett)
Wed Dec 2 08:00:33 1998
From: Steve Hazelett <hazelett@aa.net>
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 04:34:29 -0800 (PST)
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Kent,
You can change the owner/group and permissions of your Win95
partition in the /etc/fstab file. Here is what mine looks like.
/dev/hda1 /dos vfat uid=500,gid=500,umask=027 0 0
Substitute your gid and uid numbers where gid= and uid= are. You can
get those numbers from your /etc/passwd file in the third and fourth
fields of your user account. Mind just happen to be 500 and 500.
This will make all files on your Win95 partition owned by your normal
user account and read/write/executable.
I'll hazard a guess as to what the line should look like in your fstab
file (without more information).
/dev/hda /G vfat uid=500,gid=500,umask=027 0 0
Read up on man fstab, man mount. Don't try and change the permissions
on your /G partition. Hope this helps.
... Steve
"Kent R. Frazier" <kfrazier@NMSU.Edu> wrote:
> I'm pretty sure that this question has been asked and answered
> recently,
> but (I know I shouldn't have) I was logged in as root and managed to
> delete
> my entire /home directory including my mail files. Let this serve as
> an
> example to the recent thread on why one shouldn't log in as root.
>
> Anyway, I'm not sure how to obtain recent postings from the archive,
> so I'm
> asking the question again.
>
> 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?
>
> Also, how does one look for recent postings in the archives? The last
> time
> I looked, they only had posting listed from early November.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Kent
> (older and wiser with a new /home) <grin>
hazelett@aa.net
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