Re: [gentoo-user] fstab devmode

[Joseph <syscon@interbaun.com>]

On Sun, 2006-08-27 at 16:53 -0400, Willie Wong wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 12:55:11PM -0600, Penguin Lover Joseph squawked:
> > Can someone refresh my memory?
> > I'm trying to mount usb memory stick with permission 600 but it is not
> > taking devmode=0600
> > 
> > The current command mounts it as 755
> > /dev/sda1               /mnt/camera     auto
> > noauto,rw,users,exec
> > 
> > I've tried:
> > /dev/sda1               /mnt/camera     auto
> > noauto,devmode=0600
> > but no luck.
> 
> Are you sure it is usbfs? If it is a camera, then perhaps it is vfat?
> Try using the umask option?

It is a usb stick so it has a vfat file system.  However, I've reformat
the stick with fdisk to ext2 filesystem.  With vfat it has 978mb
capacity now after formating is to ext2 it has a 913mb capacity.
Is there a way to create dos (vfat) partition with Linux fdisk utility?

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#Joseph
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