[ale] VFAT partition under Linux

[Fulton Green]

Hey Ben,

This might be dictated by the lack of UNIX-style access bits in the FAT/
VFAT family. I don't think the Linux driver does anything special to even
emulate such a feature. But you probably knew that. I don't know why the
fstab entry isn't obeyed, unless you're doing it wrong (which I doubt). You
may wind up having to change the source for the FAT/VFAT driver(s). Just
what you wanted to hear, I know. :)

On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 12:51:23PM -0500, Benjamin Scherrey wrote:
> I've got a dual boot Linux/NT box with a 2GB VFAT partition that I want
> to share between the two OS'. I want to give normal users full rwx
> rights on the drive (mounted as /dos) and have specified "rw" in the
> fstab entry. Unfortunately, only root seems to be able to write to /dos
> even when I try to do a chmod 777 on directories and files (it never
> seems to grant group or other "write" rights). Is there something I'm
> missing? What should my fstab entry look like to acomplish this?
> 	
> 	thanx & later,
> 
> 		Ben Scherrey
> 
> FWIW - all users can read from the drive.
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