Accessing mounted fat32 partitions as user

linuxgamer09483 · 02-13-2004, 01:21 PM

HI. I am having trouble accessing my mounted fat32 partition on my user account, although it is fine with root.
Although ls -l shows 'rwxr--r--' I cant even ls the directories inside the main mount point without getting "permission denied"

Am I missing something??
Help?

Thanks!

linuxgamer09483 · 02-13-2004, 02:52 PM

Im running slackware-current. the drive is mounted as vfat...

guygriffiths · 02-13-2004, 03:48 PM

A line like this in /etc/fstab should do you nicely. It allows any user read and write access to the partition:

Code:

/dev/hdb1     /mnt/music   vfat     umask=000,rw    0     0

Obviously replace /dev/hdb1 with your hard drive device and /mnt/music with your mount directory.
Hope this helps
Guy

linuxgamer09483 · 02-13-2004, 05:43 PM

Thank you!!!
I had tried putting "umask 007 /FATF" in rc.local, but it did not occur to me to put it in /etc/fstab.
Thanks!