directory as file in vfat? [SOLVED]

cfgold · n00b Joined: 31 Mar 2005 Posts: 64

Hello,

I have a vfat partition to share files with the other OS. When I'm logged in as root, I have no troubles. However, when I'm logged in as a user, I can see the partition (called data) and open it. However, all the directories appear as single files. Since I'm always planning to login as the user, what can I change so that the vfat partition is always r,w, etc.?

Here is the snippet from my fstab:

Nil_Spaar · Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 9:09 pm Post subject:

What exactly do you mean with "all the directories appear as single files"? I guess you mean you can't cd into them and most probably the cause is that the permissions aren't set right. It would help if you posted the output of "ls -l" to clarify things. And it would also be usefull to know if you mounted it as root or as user.

Here is how my fstab line looks:

cfgold · n00b Joined: 31 Mar 2005 Posts: 64

Hi Nil_Spaar,

Thank you for the reply. Incidentally, a collegue was able to help. It seems that umask=0 alone does the trick:

Nil_Spaar · Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 9:35 pm Post subject:

Of course umask=0 gives you access.
With umask you define which permission bits get not set, so umask=0 means no permission bits are not set, or in other words all permissions bits are set so anybody has read,write and execute rights. If that's enough for you, you should be fine with that.
My solution allows you to better control who has access and who hasn't. And what was most important to me: It gives directorys the execute bit (so you can cd into them) and doesn't give it to normal files. Usually you don't want/can execute files that are on a vfat drive and when typing "ll" in the shell, excutable files are displayed in green and normal files in black and it did annoy me terribly when everyting was green on the windows drives