how can root mount a FAT partition so other users can get write permission?

Phil Schaffner P.R.Schaffner at IEEE.org
Wed Nov 17 05:02:50 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 11:40 +0700, Nguyen Dinh Kien wrote:
> I edit fstab so i can mount a FAT partition, but not root user can't
> write to this mount point. How can i mount this partition so other
> users can get write permission?

No really clean way to do it except to mount for a single user, or open
it up to a group with this brain-damaged file system.  Do "man mount"
and look at "Mount options for fat" section.  Some combination of uid,
gid, umask, dmask, and fmask options may be what you want.

Phil





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