Re: [gentoo-user] Can't mount a fat32 partition

[Colin <signofzeta@gmail.com>]

aabb wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Here's a strange one...
>
>I use 2 partitions for Windows 98, hda1 and hda5. I set both up as type
>"c" (fat32 LBA) during my gentoo installation, using fdisk. The entries
>in /etc/fstab are almost identical:
>
>/dev/hda1    /mnt/win_c    vfat    umask=0,noexec      0 0
>/dev/hda5    /mnt/win_d    vfat    umask=0,noexec      0 0
>
Any of the mask entries correspond to octal permission;  therefore, they 
need to be three-digit numbers.  I recommend 022 (rwxr-xr-x), but I 
assume you want 000 (rwxrwxrwx).  Don't forget to set uid and gid or 
else only root will have access to the files!

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Colin

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