[TriLUG] making a window partition read/write

Vestal, Roy L. rvestal at rti.org
Fri Jan 11 09:25:51 EST 2002


Man pages!!!

seriously, in the FSTAB you need to set it up something like this:

/dev/hdb1	/ddrive	vfat	auto,rw,gid='yourgid',umask=002 0 0

The gid should be the group id you want to have write permissions and the
umask sets your permissions. umask is opposite of what you use, i.e. chmod
775 is umask 002 (7-0=0, 7-0=0, 7-5=2). Setting this way leaves root as
owner, which is what you want to do.

good luck.

FYI...I got this from the man pages. They are a good resource to read.



-----Original Message-----
From: Scott [mailto:biogod at email.unc.edu]
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 3:04 AM
To: trilug at trilug.org
Subject: [TriLUG] making a window partition read/write



I was wondering if there was a way to make a windows partition both 
readable AND writable without becoming root or su.  I've tried chown, 
etc, but the permissions won't "stick".  Admittedly, I haven't tried 
suid yet; would this work?  Any bright ideas?

Scott "Biogod" Kennedy



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