Something has changed on my redhat6.0 laptop to where $USER cannot
write to /mnt/dos1 (mounted as -tvfat)
I've chmoded, chowned, cajoled, stroked and otherwise tittilated the
directory but still I can not write there as user. Whereas with what
appear to be the same permissions and settings on a nearby 6.2 machine
I can write to dos with no problems as $USER.
When umounted `chown reader.reader /mnt/dos1' does what you'd expect but
when remounted it reverts back to root root. On the 6.2 machine the
directory stays chowned mounted or not.
I haven't been accessing this machine regularly but I'm reasonably
certain I once had this working.
The fstab entry looks like this:
/dev/hda1 /mnt/dos1 vfat noauto,user,dev,exec,suid,rw,perm=664,quiet 0 0
Some of this was set back in the days of 4* and 5* when we had the cabaret
util ( I liked that one) and has been carried along since. I may have
changed something here... not sure now. The perm part has never had
any effect I don't think. Quiet comes from the days when moving
something across filesystems resulted in an error although the action
was completed.
`man fstab' is right on the borderline between just useless and
utterly useless for this. Its author has honored the well worn tradition
of giving absolutely *NO* examples. (Who ever started that trend years
ago should have there neck wrung)
Maybe one day examples will be seen as bare minimum for something that
claims to be *THE* source of documentation.
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