[wplug] vfat partition problem

[Brian S. Woolstrum]

try changing the fstab entry to this:

/dev/hda1        /dosc    vfat    umask=022  1  1

On Thu, 17 Apr 2003, Paul G Cantalupo wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I recently installed a new Slackware9.0 Linux system. As a result, my 2
> Windows (vfat) partitions are unreadable by a regular user. On my previous
> Slackware8.0 system, I had no problems. Here is output from fstab, fdisk
> and mount
>
> fstab
> /dev/hda1      /dosc    vfat    defaults  1  1
> /dev/hda10      /dosd   vfat    defaults  1  1
>
> fdisk
> /dev/hda1   *         1      1786  14346013+   c  Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
> /dev/hda10         4761      4864    835348+   b  Win95 FAT32
>
> mount
> /dev/hda1 on /dosc type vfat (rw)
> /dev/hda10 on /dosd type vfat (rw)
>
>
> In an effort to figure this out, I unmounted /dosc and /dosd and I deleted
> the directories /dosc and /dosd and recreated them. Here is what they look
> like
>
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Apr 17 09:56 dosc/
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Apr 17 09:56 dosd/
>
> But when I mount /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda10, I get this:
>
> drwxr--r--   17 root     root         8192 Dec 31  1969 dosc/
> drwxr--r--    6 root     root         4096 Dec 31  1969 dosd/
>
> Notice that the permissions change from 755 to 744. Why? Is this my
> problem? Can anybody suggest what I try next?
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> Paul
>
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