Re: write permission on a FAT32 USB drive
From: Charles Sullivan (cwsulliv_at_triad.rr.com)
Date: 01/29/05
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Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 21:06:34 GMT
On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 13:48:44 +0000, Dances With Crows wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 12:24:11 +0100, Julien Arrouart staggered into the
> Black Sun and said:
>> I have an external hhd with a fat32 file system. When I mount the
>> partition I can read but not write ... what is the problem ?
>> /dev/sda1 /mnt/removable vfat defaults,rw,user,noauto,umask=0 0 0
> ^^^^^^^^ ^
> You want the options field in /etc/fstab to read like this for FAT
> filesystems:
>
> noauto,rw,users,umask=000
>
> ..."defaults" is only useful for Unix-like filesystems that aren't
> removable. "umask=0" should be equivalent to "umask=000", but use the
> full form and see what happens. Bonne chance,
Matt,
As far as I could ever tell, "defaults" is just a place-holder
for use in /etc/fstab when there are no other options to be
specified, and doesn't set any options that aren't already set
by default in the code.
Have you found that it does indeed perform some function with
some filesystems?
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