[UnseenMenace]

Im having trouble with a fstab file ...

I installed SuSE on a dual booting system on a 120gb drive partitioned 50 -50 with WinXP... Windows XP was converted to VFat using partition magic so that It could be wriiten to using the Linux partition (however I can not write to it unless I have root permissions)

Heres the unedited fstab... please help, pray, do what you need to save me

/dev/hda3 / reiserfs defaults 1 1
/dev/hda1 /windows/C ntfs ro,users,gid=users,unmask=0002,nls=iso8859-1 0 0
/dev/hda2 swap swap pri=42 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0

[UnseenMenace]

the fstab has seriously been edited since, but withour success

[jajmon]

Shouldn't say 'rw' where it says 'ro' in this line?

/dev/hda1 /windows/C ntfs ro,users,gid=users,unmask=0002,nls=iso8859-1 0 0

[Titan386]

Something like:

Code:

/dev/hda1 /windows/C vfat rw,gid=users,umask=000 0 0

should allow everyone to have full access to the drive.

[Christoph]

Note that with Titan's method you'll have to mount the partition as a non-root user in the group "users" if you want that user to have access to it. If you're not sure if you're in that group, do cat /etc/group|grep users (you may want /etc/groups).

[Titan386]

Hmm, I'm pretty sure that the partition would be mounted upon boot. Only root would be able to (re)mount it, as I don't specify the "user" option. The "gid=" option will make all the files on that partition owned by the group "users", but the umask I picked should allow full access for those users not in that group. Last time I used Suse, all the user-created accounts are automagically (provided you don't add them manually via useradd) members of the users groups anyway.

[Christoph]

Sorry. I assumed that the gid=group option was the same as the user option.

[UnseenMenace]

Originally posted by Titan386
Something like:

Code:

/dev/hda1 /windows/C vfat rw,gid=users,umask=000 0 0

should allow everyone to have full access to the drive.

This makes no difference at all, I can still only write to the drive with root permissions

Any more ideas.. is there anything else I need to edit ?

[UnseenMenace]

Do i need to re-mount the drive or edit user groups... advice on how to do anything required would be most helpfull

[Titan386]

The drive will need to be remounted for the new ftstab options to take effect. You can either reboot, or unmount and remount it manually:

umount /windows/C
mount /dev/hda1 /windows/C -o rw,gid=users,umask=000


Note that that portion of the mount command following the -o is the same as the "options" section of your fstab.

I'm assuming that the users you want to be able to access the drive are in the "users" group. I think that should already be done for you in Suse.