*- On 12 Feb, David Webster wrote about "chmod on vfat"
> Only root can write to a vfat partition. I suppose because vfat
> contains no extended attributes for security you cannot simply chmod on
> a file/directory to allow someone other than root to write to it. Any
> work arounds to allow someone other than root to write to a vfat
> partition?
>
This is what I have done. I created a group called dos with gid of
35(this could be whatever you want, see man for adduser). Then I just
added users of the local machine to that group(see man for adduser).
Then mount the drives with gid=35 and umask=007. Below are the bits of
my fstab for my three vfat partitions.
/dev/hda1 /bri/c vfat rw,quiet,unhide,gid=35,umask=007,user
/dev/hda6 /bri/d vfat rw,quiet,unhide,gid=35,umask=007,user
/dev/hdc5 /bri/e vfat rw,quiet,unhide,gid=35,umask=007,user
See man for mount and fstab.
If you don't use the quiet option(see man for mount)you get messages
like 'Operation not supported:......' because as you said above vfat
does not have extended attributes.
Works for me,
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Brian
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