Re: GLUG: Mounting Windows Partion

["Dr R Paskaramoorthy" <MOORTHY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Daniel,

Try the following in /etc/fstab:

/dev/hda1 /win95  vfat   user,exec,dev,suid,rw    1   1

Cheers
RP


> 
> >>> Daniel <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 99/12/02 11:10:50 >>>
> Hello again linux people,
> 
> Please bare with the long explanation, my question is near the end. What
> I did a while ago, was add a line to /etc/fstab as follows:
> 
> /dev/hda1	/win95		vfat
> 
> which did what it was supposed to and mounted my windows partion under
> /win95/ on boot up, however I soon discovered that it was read only to
> normal users. Only root could write to it. So I changed /etc/fstab to
> read:
> 
> /dev/hda1	/win95		vfat		user
> 
> Which allowed a user to mount/unmount it, but still didn't give rw
> access. I then made it
> 
> ....  user,rw
> 
> But nope, it still is read-only, until I umount and then re- mount it as
> a user. So I now have:
> 
> ....  user,noauto
> 
> and everytime (often) I want to access my windows partion I have to
> mount it. Is there no way I can mount it on boot up, that its mounted as
> user accessible and not as root???
> 
> Any thoughts..
> 
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