Daniel on Fri, 3 Dec 1999 22:47:19 +0200


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Re: Mounting Windows Partion


Hi again,

Thanks for all the replies. chmod 777 didn't work at all. The solution
was...

> Daniel, I would put this in /etc/fstab:
> 
> /dev/hda1       /win95          vfat            umask=002,uid=X,gid=Y
> 
> where X is 0 (or perhaps your UID) and Y is the GID of a group that you
> create.  Then you can put everyone you want to have write access in that
> group, others only have read access.
> 
> If you really want to give everyone free reign:
> 
> /dev/hda1       /win95          vfat            umask=000

I had already tried doing things like adding user,exec,suid etc.

Anyway, thanks again.

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