Users unable to write to mounted FAT32 partition

Michael G. mikegoe at earthlink.net
Sat Mar 3 00:25:11 UTC 2007


Jerry,

Owner of /mydos is root and Group is wheel.  User has rwx while Group 
and Other only have r-x

M.G.



Jerry McAllister wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 05:14:14PM -0600, Michael G. wrote:
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>> OK, I've scoured the archives for an answer with no results.  I'm 
>> sharing a FAT32 partition between XP and 6.2 Release.  The problem is I 
>> can mount the drive but only root can write to it (users can just 
>> read).  I have the following in fstab:
>>
>> /dev/asd42        /mydos        msdosfs     rw  0 0
>>
>> I've tried adding the -u or -g option with no luck.  I understand that 
>> since FAT has no inherent permissions chmod has no effect either (tried 
>> it just to be sure) so it must be set from fstab.  Any help?
>>     
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> What are the owner and permissions on the mount point  (/mydos)?
>
> ////jerry
>
>   
>> Thanks!
>>
>> M.G.
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