On Wednesday December 3, 2003 "Trevor Smith" <trevor(a)haligonian.com>
wrote:
On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 21:49:38 -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote:
>The "user" only has permission to write to the disk if he mounted it.
> Fix your fstab option, unmount the drive, log in as "trevor" and mount
> the drive as that user. You will then be able to write to it.
Thanks, that is the trick. I wanted to have it automounted but instead I
just created a new disc object on my desktop and that does all the
auto-mounting for me. Just as good.
>The access failure occurs because your file manager is trying to
> preserve permissions. It copies the file (which is fine), then tries
> to set the user/group and permissions on the new file which can't be
> done.
> vfat doesn't store file owner/group or permissions.
Right! Thanks for the explanation. That alleviates my worry about what
was going wrong.
Trevor,
There is also a "users" option for /etc/fstab that should allow you to use
automount. Like "loop", "users" is [badly] documented in 'man
mount', and
the stock colorization file for vim will make you think it's not legal. It
is.
--Doc Savage
Fairview Heights, IL