[wellylug] accessing vfat partition

Darryl Hamilton wellylug at addict.net.nz
Mon May 3 10:21:32 NZST 2004


Ewen McNeill wrote:
> 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
> ). 

Or, you could use the 'id' program, which should give you your user and 
group id numbers and names, eg

   [lordp at zuul]
   [ ~ ]$ id
   uid=1000(lordp) gid=100(users) groups=100(users)





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