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Re: [SLUG] Enabling users to write to vfat partition


On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Laurie Savage wrote:

> I'm using RedHat 7.1. I can't write files to the windows partition
> /mnt/win98. I want my users to do this. Tried chown root.users -R

Laurie,
You need umask=0 . Or "umask=002,gid=xxx"   where xxx is a group to have
write access. See fstab(5).  e.g.

/dev/hda2 /win vfat  exec,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0


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