Re: vfat only writable by root

[Jonathan Pryor <jonpryor vt edu>]

Edit /etc/fstab, and in the options section for your vfat partition,
specify the "user" option to allow the user that mounted the partition
to read it:

	# here's a flash drive I want all users to be able to mount
	/dev/sdb1	/mnt/flash	vfat	defaults,noauto,user 0 0

If you instead want the drive to be mounted at boot, implying that the
user shouldn't have to manually mount the partition, use the uid and gid
options and specify the numeric user id and group id that should be used
when mounting the partition:

	# allow the user with uid=500 to edit files on /mnt/win-c
	/dev/hda1	/mnt/win-c	vfat	defaults,auto,uid=500,gid=500 0 0

See the mount(8) man page for more information (in particular, the
"Mount options for fat" section).

 - Jon

On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 21:16, Davies Peter Lewis wrote:
> Hi linux folk.
> 
> I am running redhat 7.3
> I partitioned my harddrive into three 32 G vfat partitions and one 56
> G
> ext3. For some reason I have not been able to write to the vfat
> partitions
> except as root. This is starting to bug me.
> 
> I have checked the permissions and changed the mount point to 777
> Still no luck
> 
> Any suggestions
> 
> regards
> Hope you can help me
> 
> Pete
> 
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