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"Mr. TANG" <mktan4@cfs02.cc.monash.edu.au> writes:

> 	I try mount the Win95 partition for any user in linux, but when I setup
> the fstab, only the root user can write file to Win95 partition, why
> ???? I have try vfat and msdos type in mount command, it had same
> problem.

MS-VFAT does not support file permissions etc...

You can mount a partition ``suid'' if you want to give permissions to
anyone who mounts the drive.

Here is my fstab:

# device        mount-dir  fs-type  options                 fs-freq  fs-pass
#                                   user,exec,dev,suid
#--------------+----------+--------+-----------------------+--------+-------

/dev/hdb1       /          ext2     defaults                 1        1
/dev/hdb4       /hdb4      ext2     user,noauto,ro           1        2
/dev/hda4       /hda4      ext2     defaults                 1        3

/dev/hda1       /dosc      vfat     user,noauto,rw,suid
/dev/hda2       /dosd      vfat     user,noauto,rw,suid

none            /proc      proc     defaults                 0        0

/dev/hda3       none       swap     sw                       0        0

/dev/fd0        /fd0       ext2     user,noauto              0        0
/dev/fd0        /dosa      vfat     user,noauto              0        0

/dev/hdc        /cdrom     auto     user,noauto,ro,exec      0        0

#--------------+----------+--------+-----------------------+--------+-------

any user can simply mount by:
    mount /dosc

Note that I can mount the floppy as a DOS floppy by:
    mount /dosa
and as a ext2 (Linux) floppy by:
    mount /fd0

All this is covered in the manpage for ``fstab''.

I use a test editor to change ``fstab''. 
Challenge: Try doing this with the Redhat tools.  Is that possible?  Anyone?

-- 
Manfred Bartz <mbartz@werple.net.au>
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