Mounting of vfat partitions and accession privilege management mapping (fstab, vfat, umask, fmask, dmask, users)
By jeltsch on Wed, 04/04/2007 - 21:24Old Windows (i.e. fat partitions) are no problem for Linux. advanced installers like Yast automatically recognize them and make them available under Linux. However, sometimes the accession privileges are not as you need them. In order to make a fat partition (un)mountable to all users and make every file/directory +rwx for everybody, the fstab needs to look like this: /dev/hda2 /media/windows/E vfat defaults,users,uid=500,gid=100,umask=000 0 0 Additionally Linux owner 500 and group 100 mapped as an for all files.