Mounting Windows VFAT partition

Dennis Kaarsemaker dennis at kaarsemaker.net
Thu Oct 20 10:36:29 UTC 2005


On do, 2005-10-20 at 09:23 +0000, alain.muls at telenet.be wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On my friends dual boot (XP/Ubuntu) notebook, I want to share a VFAT
> partition so that he can have access to files in both systems.
> Read/Write access and ownership should be given to the user. How
> should one proceed to do this?

In /etc/fstab:
/dev/your_drive /path/to/mountpoint vfat uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0111,dmask=0133

I hope this is clear enough :)
-- 
Dennis K.
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