Re: Problems with mounting vfat in Debian

2004-08-19 Thread NiL SpaaR
Replying myself?? Nah, just 2 express my gratitude Thank u all for your help, my fstab has been messy,messier, messiest (huh?), but now ith has the nice clean line that does the trick. With some help from thomas adam on irc.debian.org #debian I got it to "/dev/hdb1 /mntpnt vfat defaults,uid=100

Re: Problems with mounting vfat in Debian

2004-08-18 Thread Jules Dubois
On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 21:40:38 +0200, NiL SpaaR wrote: > /dev/hdb1 /home/nil/redmond vfat users,uid=nil,umask=0002,iocharset=utf8 0 0 The "uid" must be numeric; I don't know how to use the "iocharset" option. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: Problems with mounting vfat in Debian

2004-08-18 Thread NiL SpaaR
Michael Satterwhite wrote: [snip] I have my Windows partition mounted as follows: /dev/hda1 /windows vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=utf8 0 0 Note that the gid is set at this point, it's then available for use by all members of that group. Took up the advice, and tried it (with the chmo

Re: Problems with mounting vfat in Debian

2004-08-18 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Thomas Adam (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 08:26:56PM +0200, NiL SpaaR wrote: > >> I've added this line to my /etc/fstab "/dev/hdb1 >> /home/nil/redmond >> vfat defaults,user 0 0" > > What does: > > ls -l /dev/hdb1 > > produce? You should ensure tha

Re: Problems with mounting vfat in Debian

2004-08-18 Thread NiL SpaaR
Thomas Adam wrote: On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 08:26:56PM +0200, NiL SpaaR wrote: I've added this line to my /etc/fstab "/dev/hdb1 /home/nil/redmond vfat defaults,user 0 0" What does: ls -l /dev/hdb1 produce? You should ensure that it is set with perms 660. Am on the way, hadn't thoug

Re: Problems with mounting vfat in Debian

2004-08-18 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 18 August 2004 13:26, NiL SpaaR wrote: > Hi all, > > A Linux-newbie speaking here and am a bit frustrated by the fact i > cannot get a vfat mounted properly. > > I've added this line to my /etc/fstab "/dev/hdb1 /home/nil/redmond > vf

Re: Problems with mounting vfat in Debian

2004-08-18 Thread Thomas Adam
On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 08:26:56PM +0200, NiL SpaaR wrote: > I've added this line to my /etc/fstab "/dev/hdb1 /home/nil/redmond > vfat defaults,user 0 0" What does: ls -l /dev/hdb1 produce? You should ensure that it is set with perms 660. -- Thomas Adam -- "Frankly, Mr. Shankly

Problems with mounting vfat in Debian

2004-08-18 Thread NiL SpaaR
Hi all, A Linux-newbie speaking here and am a bit frustrated by the fact i cannot get a vfat mounted properly. I've added this line to my /etc/fstab "/dev/hdb1 /home/nil/redmond vfat defaults,user 0 0" I can mount it with the user but can only access it with root I mount (as nil)