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)

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

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

2004-08-19 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