[PLUG] mount fat32 so I can change user and perms

Mike De La Mater mikedela at ipns.com
Fri Jul 18 17:22:01 UTC 2003


I'm trying to mount an existing fat32 drive so that everybody on the
system can read and write to it. (MP3s mostly, nobody have a cow)

I'm mounting it 
# mount -t vfat -rw /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb

It mounts fine, but I cannot change user, group or permissions on it. Is
this because it's fat32? I googled the problem and found this;

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/1/2002/12/3/38188

The main crux is his fstab line which looks like this: (once modified to
work for me)

/dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb vfat
exec,dev,suid,rw,conv=auto,uid=502,gid=502,umask=000 0 0

Does this look okay?

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Mike De La Mater
Small Business Networks and Consulting
503-702-6749
mikedela at ipns.com






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