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PostPosted: Wed Jul 03, 2002 7:48 pm    Post subject: fstab rw setting doesnt work Reply with quote

in my fstab file:

# Windows Partitions
/dev/hda1 /windows/programs vfat user,auto,rw,exec 0 0
/dev/hda5 /windows/games vfat user,auto,rw,exec 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /windows/work vfat user,auto,rw,exec 0 0

i can execute a file, but i cannot write to the disks even though the rw setting is set. what is going on here?
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 03, 2002 7:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Try a forum search using 'vfat' and 'writing'
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 03, 2002 8:14 pm    Post subject: Re: fstab rw setting doesnt work Reply with quote

TheCoop wrote:
in my fstab file:

# Windows Partitions
/dev/hda1 /windows/programs vfat user,auto,rw,exec 0 0
/dev/hda5 /windows/games vfat user,auto,rw,exec 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /windows/work vfat user,auto,rw,exec 0 0

i can execute a file, but i cannot write to the disks even though the rw setting is set. what is going on here?


FAT based file systems have no group or user owner so you have to set it in fstab with the gid=xxx and uid=xxx. Eg.

Code:
/dev/hda1               /mnt/win        vfat            uid=1000,gid=100,rw     0 0


Where 1000 is my user id and 100 is the users group id.
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 04, 2002 3:14 am    Post subject: Re: fstab rw setting doesnt work Reply with quote

leej wrote:
Where 1000 is my user id and 100 is the users group id.


Note that the filesystem driver also understands names in the uid and gid fields, just to make things more readable.
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 04, 2002 9:17 am    Post subject: Re: fstab rw setting doesnt work Reply with quote

delta407 wrote:
leej wrote:
Where 1000 is my user id and 100 is the users group id.


Note that the filesystem driver also understands names in the uid and gid fields, just to make things more readable.


Really? ISTR wondering why on earth it didn't do that and apparently it did all along!! :lol:

Thanks for the tip :-)


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PostPosted: Thu Jul 04, 2002 10:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

thanks, it works now 8)
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