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From: Renat Golubchyk <ragermany@×××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't mount a fat32 partition
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 23:00:31
Message-Id: 20050714005213.4cbd9f77@mating-tux.renatik.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't mount a fat32 partition by Colin
1 On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 18:39:38 -0400 Colin <signofzeta@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > aabb wrote:
3 > >Here's a strange one...
4 > >
5 > >I use 2 partitions for Windows 98, hda1 and hda5. I set both up as
6 > >type "c" (fat32 LBA) during my gentoo installation, using fdisk. The
7 > >entries in /etc/fstab are almost identical:
8 > >
9 > >/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat umask=0,noexec 0 0
10 > >/dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat umask=0,noexec 0 0
11
12 What's the output of "fdisk -l /dev/hda"?
13 BTW, I use "noauto,noexec,user,fmask=0133" as options in fstab for vfat
14 partitions.
15
16 > Any of the mask entries correspond to octal permission; therefore,
17 > they need to be three-digit numbers. I recommend 022 (rwxr-xr-x),
18 > but I assume you want 000 (rwxrwxrwx). Don't forget to set uid and
19 > gid or else only root will have access to the files!
20
21 I set file mask to fmask=0133 on vfat partitions, because files on
22 windows partitions don't need the executable bit. It only annoys me when
23 Midnight Commander tries to execute them after I press ENTER.
24
25 Cheers,
26 Renat
27
28 --
29 Probleme kann man niemals mit derselben Denkweise lösen,
30 durch die sie entstanden sind.
31 (Einstein)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Can't mount a fat32 partition aabb <aabb@×××××××××××××××.com>