[WBEL-users] Mounting VFAT volume
Daniel J. Summers
danieljs@knology.net
Mon, 02 Aug 2004 20:17:19 -0500
I've gotten all the necessary files on my vfat drive, and everything
under WXP works fine. However, I'm having trouble getting the Linux
side of the house to work. Here's my /etc/fstab entry for this drive -
I looked through the man page for mount and fstab, and by what I'm
reading, this should work. The problem is that everything on the fstab
drive is owned by root, and even when running as root, I can't change
ownership.
=-=-=-=-= fstab =-=-=-=-=
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/drive_d vfat rw,user,owner,suid,exec 1 2
=-=-=-=-=
When I use chown, I get "operation not permitted". Am I being bitten by
propagated permissions? Do I need to make a mount point under
/home/summersd/ (my home directory) and let _those_ permissions work for
me? I know that the processes running as root can write to any location
in the file system.
Thanks...
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