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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