mount problems

spbecker · Retired Dev Joined: 10 Dec 2002 Posts: 73

On my most recent emerge rsync, emerge world, etc, I believe util-linux was updated. Ever since then, I can not access my windows drive with any user but root. Before mounting, the permissions on the mount point are like so:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 2 22:18 d
After mounting:
drwxr--r-- 8 root root 16384 Dec 31 1969 d

This is very frustrating because I store all of my multimedia files on my windows drive because it is larger and because that way I can access the files in windows or linux. I have read the manpage for mount, but it doesn't seem to have helped at all. I even tried emerging the previous version of util-linux and the same thing happens. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks.

SuperTomate · Guru Joined: 02 Jun 2002 Posts: 392 Location: France

I don't know what happened but I already had the same problem.
To mount your vfat partition so that any user has write-access, you can easily specify an umask as a parameter of mount :

spbecker · Retired Dev Joined: 10 Dec 2002 Posts: 73

Adding umask=0 to fstab works, however, that gives *any* user full read-write access to the disk. In my opinion that is very insecure. The way it worked before, regular users had read-only access, and root had read-write access. Hmmm

ebrostig · Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2002 11:55 pm Post subject:

What is your UMASK set to?

To find out, type umask at the command prompt.

Erik

spbecker · Retired Dev Joined: 10 Dec 2002 Posts: 73

My umask is 0022

spbecker · Retired Dev Joined: 10 Dec 2002 Posts: 73

I added a umask=022 to fstab, and now it mounts the drives properly again such that regular users have read-only. I wonder what made it break?

pilla · Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2002 12:04 am Post subject:

Have you tried the mask 022?

[EDIT] looks like it was answered before I finish postin :wink:

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