Allowing users to write/modify files in mounted filesystems?

veraction · #1 14th November 2004, 04:02 AM

I've just installed Fedora Core 3 a few days ago and am really liking it. (am a linux newbie)

Anyways, I was wondering how I would go about allowing all users to write/modify files in a mounted (hard drive partition) file system. Currently, I have to go in root to do anything like this. I tried doing a chmod of my mount folders but that didn't work.

Heres the section of my /etc/fstab file where I am having issues.. I want all users to be able to write and move files in that file system.

/dev/hde6 /mnt/data vfat user 0 0
/dev/hde1 /mnt/windows vfat user 0 0

Thanks

BTW, anyone know of a good DC client? I tried dcgui-qt and it seemed all messed up. I tried LDCC but couldn't extract the files in the pre-req Turbo Vision. DCTC's website seems to be down, though I found their file mirrored someplace else but it wouldn't work..

int80h · #2 14th November 2004, 04:08 AM

/dev/hda8 /data vfat defaults,umask=000 0 0

the "umask=000" part gives everyone read/write acess.

veraction · #3 14th November 2004, 05:42 AM

Ok, I changed the two lines in the fstab file to this:

Code:

/dev/hde6 /mnt/data vfat,defaults,umask=000 0 0
/dev/hde1 /mnt/windows vfat,defaults,umask=000 0 0

and the users still cannot write/modify from these mounted file systems..

any idea?

kostas · #4 14th November 2004, 06:03 AM

hi
try this one:
vfat auto,rw,user,umask=000 0 0
good luck

int80h · #5 14th November 2004, 06:43 AM

/dev/hde6 /mnt/data vfat,defaults,umask=000 0 0

should be:

/dev/hde6 /mnt/data vfat defaults,umask=000 0 0

you have an extra "," between vfat and defaults. You might have to unmount/mount a partition after you change fstab.

veraction · #6 14th November 2004, 02:42 PM

Well, I tried this, and it didn't work (which I expected):

Code:

/dev/hde6 vfat auto,rw,user,umask=000 0 0
/dev/hde1 vfat auto,rw,user,umask=000 0 0

Also tried this, with no success:

Code:

/dev/hde6 /mnt/data vfat defaults,umask=000 0 0
/dev/hde1 /mnt/windows vfat defaults,umask=000 0 0

I'll keep trying..

zAo · #7 14th November 2004, 02:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by veraction

Well, I tried this, and it didn't work (which I expected):

Code:

/dev/hde6 vfat auto,rw,user,umask=000 0 0
/dev/hde1 vfat auto,rw,user,umask=000 0 0

Also tried this, with no success:

Code:

/dev/hde6 /mnt/data vfat defaults,umask=000 0 0
/dev/hde1 /mnt/windows vfat defaults,umask=000 0 0

I'll keep trying..

Tried to umount/mount ?

veraction · #8 14th November 2004, 02:54 PM

Well, I changed the fstab file, then umounted, then mounted, then swtiched to a user to try to modify mnt/data but no success

then tried restarting computer, I noticed during booting, it said that like 10 & 11 in fstab were incorrect (which are those two lines)

veraction · #9 14th November 2004, 03:01 PM

Ok, I finally got it

Thanks for your help.

Here is what worked finally (which I thought I tried already..)

Code:

/dev/hde6              /mnt/data                vfat    defaults,umask=000 0 0
/dev/hde1              /mnt/windows             vfat    defaults,umask=000 0 0

stevewabc · #10 14th November 2004, 04:33 PM

I have no problems with mine its set up like this:

/dev/hda5 /Windows vfat rw,umask=000 0 0

reddragon72 · #11 14th November 2004, 06:23 PM

Well I'm in the same boat here , but I get a slightly different error. I can only mount the drive in root and when I try to access the drive from non root I get a "Could not enter folder /mnt/hdb"
here is my fstab entry for it

/dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb ntfs defaults,unmask=000 0 0

I have tried everything. But whenever the drive is mounted the permissions for group goes from read to forbidden, and even as root I cannot change it. So for some unkown reason I cannot access /mnt/hdb after the drive is mounted. root can read the drive so i know that the ntfs reader is working, but nothing seems to work to change the forbidden to read. I had no issue with this in debian so I'm not sure if it's just the new fstab or what. Thanks for any help. Oh and yes I even mounted and unmounted over and over. Man this is killing me.

Daizy · #12 14th November 2004, 11:23 PM

not unmask, umask!

and remove defaults from there as well!