How do I mount a fat32 partition writable by all from /etc/fstab

[Ned Slider]

Hi,

Can anyone tell me how I set up a vat32 partition in /etc/fstab so it's writable by all users (well, me anyway) rather than just root, and also allow execution of applications on that partition (windows apps under wine).

My current entry in /etc/fstab looks like below but only root can write to it.

/dev/hda5 /windows vfat defaults 0 0

Thanks,

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[Provicemo]

Can anyone tell me how I set up a vat32 partition in /etc/fstab so it's writable by all users (well, me anyway) rather than just root, and also allow execution of applications on that partition (windows apps under wine).

/dev/hda5      /windows      vfat      rw,noatime,user   0 0

"user" lets a user mount it, "rw" lets the system know its read-write, if that was the problem your having with execution

[Ned Slider]

I edited my fstab file as indicated and rebooted but still no go

The dirs are still owned by root and are 755. I tried changing permissions as root but it still won't let me

and what does the 'noatime' option do?

Thanks,

Ned

[Ned Slider]

/dev/hda5      /windows      vfat      rw,noatime,user   0 0

"user" lets a user mount it, "rw" lets the system know its read-write, if that was the problem your having with execution

OK, I've figured it out, I added my uid and gid values and now I own the mount instead of root which solves the problem

/dev/hda5      /windows      vfat      rw,noatime,uid=500,gid=500,user   0 0

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[Provicemo]

Good to hear you got it working. fat doesn't support permissions/ownership as far as i know. whoever mounts it, owns it.

[Ned Slider]

Thanks Provicemo for pointing me in the right direction

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[burzmali]

if you want all users to have r/w access you should use this line

/dev/hda5      /windows      vfat      rw,noatime,user,umask=0   0 0

[Ned Slider]

Thanks burzmali,

I found that option too when doing a forum search and man page on mount and fstab

Yes, you're right. As I'm the only user, besides root, the uid option works fine for me, but for multiple users the umask option presumably would be the way to go

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[Ned Slider]

One last question while we're on the subject, is there a way to reinvoke fstab without having to reboot whilst I'm testing different options?

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[Eggs]

One last question while we're on the subject, is there a way to reinvoke fstab without having to reboot whilst I'm testing different options?

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There is no need, you should jsut be able to do "mount /mountpoint" then it checks the file and does what it should. If you want to do the mounting that should happen when you start up do mount -a

[Ned Slider]

There is no need, you should jsut be able to do "mount /mountpoint" then it checks the file and does what it should. If you want to do the mounting that should happen when you start up do mount -a

Thanks eggs.

Do I need to umount it first as it's already mounted when I boot or will issuing a mount command remount it with the new settings?

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[Eggs]

Thanks eggs.

Do I need to umount it first as it's already mounted when I boot or will issuing a mount command remount it with the new settings?

Ned

Yah just remount it, sorry.

[Ned Slider]

Thanks

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