Vfat doesn't understand the same sort of permissions that ext3 does. If you want a disk to be writeable by a user, you need to specify that user as options when you mount the drive You will need to use the uid and perhaps gid mount options, and perhaps the umask one as well eg: id ron will show you the uid for the 'ron' user. Use this where I say "$uid" below then mount -o uid=$uid -t vfat /dev/sdd1 /media/sdd1 I'm somewhat surprised that there isn't a nice gui mangler tool to handle this for you however. Have you checked any of that?
I got it to mount using the -t option but now I don't know how to change the permissions from root I have tried the following sudo chown ron /media/sdd1 chmod 755 -R /media/sdd1 What am I missing here?
Samuel Douglas wrote:
mount -o vfat /dev/sda3 /mount/point
Assuming sda3 is the partition you want to mount.
If it is mounting automatically as ext3, you can change /etc/fstab to mount it as vfat.
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Ron Dean <rvdean(a)ihug.co.nz> wrote:
Is it possible to convert the above. I have already backed it up to another drive. After I format it in Partition Magic What commands do I issue to re mount it .
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