Users unable to write to mounted FAT32 partition
Chris Hill
chris at monochrome.org
Sat Mar 3 00:30:56 UTC 2007
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Michael G. wrote:
> Owner of /mydos is root and Group is wheel. User has rwx while Group
> and Other only have r-x
Well, there it is. I think users who want to write to this filesystem
need to have write permission on the mountpoint. How about creating a
group, perhaps "users", of which all users are members, then chown
root:users /mydos, then chmod 775 /mydos
> Jerry McAllister wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 05:14:14PM -0600, Michael G. wrote:
>>
>>> 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?
>>
>> What are the owner and permissions on the mount point (/mydos)?
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