How to Make HAL mount vfat rw?

[cwelch]

I have FC4 with kernel 2.6.14-1.1656-FC4smp HAL version 0.5.2

I have created a file, storage-policy-pers-3.fdi (posted at http://home.hiwaay.net/~cwelch/stora...icy-pers-3.fdi) and placed it in /etc/hal/fdi/policy for the purpose of directing HAL to write specific stuff to the /etc/fstab in particular, to mount /media/cdrecorder as /media/cdrom and /media/cdrecorder1 as /media/dvd and also to mount a vfat partion /win95 on /dev/hda2 read/write (rw).

The fstab created is posted at http://home.hiwaay.net/~cwelch/fstab.txt, the output from lshal is posted at http://home.hiwaay.net/~cwelch/lshal.txt

I know that storage-policy-pers-3.fdi is being read correctly in part because the cdrom drive and the dvd drive are mounting with the correct mount point. Also the lshal echos some of the directives I have entered with no problem.

HOWEVER, the vfat partition is NOT mounting rw for "all," it is mounted with just r-x permissions for "all."

I can mount the partition manually by the following 2 commands, and all is well, but I would like for the system to boot up in this "state."

#umount /win95
#mount -t vfat -o umask=0 /dev/hda2 /win95

Am I missing some option or directive in the storage-policy-pers-3.fdi file, or using improper or incomplete syntax, or is there a bug in FC4?

[hiberphoptik]

i didnt have to do anything fancy for hal but i added this line manualy to fstab and i can read/write

/dev/hda1 /media/xp vfat auto,user,rw,exec,umask=0003,gid=users 0 0

[cwelch]

Problem Solved!

I edited my /etc/fstab as you directly and it works perfectly now, mounting rw upon boot.

Thank you very very much!

[fire-fly]

Originally Posted by hiberphoptik

i didnt have to do anything fancy for hal but i added this line manualy to fstab and i can read/write

/dev/hda1 /media/xp vfat auto,user,rw,exec,umask=0003,gid=users 0 0

unless it is an external plugable device

[hiberphoptik]

Originally Posted by fire-fly

unless it is an external plugable device

huh?

i use external devices all the time without the need to manually edit or mount anything they always just work and i can read/write to them with no problems as a user (with the exception of the NTFS external drive which is read only)


hal-0.5.5.1-1.1.fc4.nr

[fire-fly]

sorry I plugable device with ntfs partition (the consequent of doing own stuff during office hour). By changing default option in /etc/fstab will not work.