FAT32 issue

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Duncan Lithgow Wrote: 
> On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 16:38 -0800, John Ughrin wrote:
> > I've got a FAT32 partition set up to share between
> > Ubuntu and WinXP. I've tried  changing fstab, which
> > put it on my desktop. However, I can't seem to get
> > permission to write or read anything in the drive. As
> > root, I appear to be able to create directories, but
> > then I can't change their permissions. When I get
> > feedback from chmod or chown, I get stuff like this:
> > 
> > root at ubuntu:/home/john # chown john
> > /datashare/Johnfiles
> > chown: changing ownership of `/datashare/Johnfiles':
> > Operation not permitted
> > 
> > Also, when I open the datashare drive on the GNOME
> > desktop I only see little rectangles with a green
> > footprint in them.
> > 
> > A little experimenting reveals that I _can_ do all
> > these things on the linux partition. 
> > 
> > I'm a linux newbie so if you need more info, you might
> > need to tell me how to get it. Thanks in advance.
> fat32 - or vfat as linux calls it, has some different permission
> problems - it doesn't work quite like other drives. I'm no expert but
> this works for me:
> 
> The name of the drive which is fat 32: /dev/hda5
> The folder to mount it to (don't forget to make this
> folder): /mnt/SharedFiles
> The filesystem: vfat
> options: auto(mount always),defaults,gid=600(the id of the group who
> owns it),dmask=2(the permissions for the directory),fmask=113(the
> permissions for the files) 0 0
> 
> So the line should look like an altered version of:
> 
> /dev/hda5		/mnt/SharedFiles	vfat	auto,defaults,gid=600,dmask=2,fmask=113
> 0 0
> 
> Duncan
> 
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$ sudo mount /dev/hda1 /media/window -t vfat -o umask=000
(change values)

Or this for automount http://ubuntuguide.org/#automountfat


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