problems accesing VFAT partitions as an user

neuro · n00b Joined: 30 Dec 2002 Posts: 9

Greetings,
I am having problems accessing second level directories/files inside a windows partition.
The vfat partition mounts without any errors and I can access all the files and directories level as root.
When I try to access them as a normal user, I get directory listings up to the second level, but I cannot read/execute any of the files inside or read the contents of other directories inside them...
The /etc/fstab entry for the vfat partition is set to the defaults, as specified in the gentoo-install guide...

Does anyone has an idea what could be the problem here?

Another question, how can I configure the windows partition to be writeable by normal users?

thank you

noff · Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2002 3:36 am Post subject:

I'm not sure of the exact write answer, but the workarounds I use are changing the ownership of the /mnt/vfat to 666 and in fstab making it noauto,rw,users then mounting the drives as the user
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pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20589

User can mount Ntfs but not enter directory. Why? should help with how to mount windows drives. The only difference should be the reference to ntfs or vfat. Have you followed those steps?

Moved from Installing Gentoo.

neuro · n00b Joined: 30 Dec 2002 Posts: 9

Thanks, I added umask=000 and now works nice