[wellylug] accessing vfat partition

[Ewen McNeill]

In message <4094C331.2050207 at paradise.net.nz>, Lyndsay Mountfort writes:
>The line from /etc/fstab is:
>/dev/hda5    /win_d    vfat    defaults,noauto    0 0

If it's just you using the machine try something more like this:

/dev/hda5         /win_d            vfat user,noauto,nodev,noexec,uid=NNN,gid=MMM 0  0

where NNN is your user id (obtained with eg, 
awk -F : "/${LOGNAME}:/ { print \$3; }" /etc/passwd
) and MMM is your group id (obtained with, eg, 
awk -F : "/${LOGNAME}:/ { print \$4; }" /etc/passwd
). 

If there are more people that need access, then set up a group for
access to the windows drive, set that gid value in the line above, and
set a umask=0007 parameter too.

(The umask=0000 approach will work too, but I don't recommend it as it 
means _any_ user id on your machine can read/write to the drive,
including ones which are supposedly "non privileged" like nobody.  It
increases the risk of a break in to a supposedly unimportant account.)

Ewen