changing permissions for mounted drives
Rick Stevens
ricks at nerd.com
Mon Oct 25 16:29:13 UTC 2010
On 10/25/2010 01:27 AM, sumatheja wrote:
> Thanks for responding. I have the following line in the /etc/fstab file
>
> UUID=<something> /home/office vfat uid=500,users,rw,exec 0 0
>
> but still the directory is not allowing user with id 500 to write its
> only giving read and execute permission. Am i missing something??
The mountpoint has to permit write operations if you're trying to
write to the root of the volume. So unmount the volume, make sure the
/home/office directory has the appropriate permissions, then mount
the volume. Note also that vfat volumes themselves do not have the
concept of permissions or ownership of files.
>
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 3:42 AM, JD<jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 10/23/2010 10:22 AM, sumatheja wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>> I have made a partition in my hard disk and mounted it to
>>> /media/xyz. But i'm unable to change the permissions of the mounted
>>> directory at all.
>>> I want to give read/write permissions to some of the users other than root.
>>>
>> Well, I have a vfat partition mounted from fstab,
>> in which I grant group access to a specific gid.
>>
>> /dev/sde3 /sde3 vfat gid=777,user,rw,exec 0 0
>>
>> users in group 777 can read/write/execute.
>> They can execute the executable files in wine.
>>
>> Users in group 777 can mount and unmount.
>> In order to accomplish this,
>> the group permissions on /sdd3 and /dev/sdd3 is rwx,
>> and the gid of /sde3 and /dev/sde3 is 777.
>>
>> Good luck.
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