[wplug] vfat partition problem

[Paul G Cantalupo]

Thanks everybody for your help. It seems that umask=022 does the trick.

Can somebody explain why this is necessary on my Slack9 (kernel 2.4.20)
system and not on my old Slack8 (2.4.18) system?

Thanks,

Paul

On Thu, 17 Apr 2003, Brian S. Woolstrum wrote:

> 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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