permissions on VFAT partitions

[Chris Tooley]

Actually on the user that mounts a vfat partition can write to it.  you
can pass a uid and that user (and subsequently root) can write to the
partition as well.  Everything will be written as that user and
everything will be "owned" by that user.  I'm not sure if you can set
the group permission bit to write as vfat doesn't explicitly understand
permissions, I'd love be proven wrong:), and so everything has
permissions 755.

Chris Tooley

On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 15:19, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> In my experience, only root can write to vfat partitions.  Regular users 
> cannot.
> 
> Thomas
> 
> Rodger Haynes wrote:
> 
> >I'm running RH7.1 and Samba 2.2.2 . I would like to offer a VFAT
> >partition on the server  hard drive for universal read-write access. I
> >mount the partition in fstab with
> >
> >/dev.hda5    /sys    vfat    defaults,rw,uid=1001,gid=1001    0 0
> >
> >It mounts fine and shows up on the Windows 98 machine and can be opened.
> >I can't write to it however.
> >User and group 1001 are smbuser account, and they show up in /ls -l as
> >the owner and group.
> >security=share
> >I'm logging in from host "rodger" - this account exists in hosts file
> >chmod 777 /sys -R and chmod 777 /sys/* -R doesn't seem to get the job
> >done either.
> >I can set up directories under / and make them universally accessable, I
> >just can't seem to do it with VFAT
> >I'm new to the Linux world and would really appreciate any help you can
> >give me. Thanks in advance. -Rodger
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 
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