Lee Parmeter wrote:
Lee, worked perfect, thanks a lot for the guiding hand. I will study this tomorrow to make sure I understand.Herb: Ok, I think the example below should work for you. Make a copy of your working fstab prior to editing. cd /etc cp fstab fstab.orig # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0/dev/sda6 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1/dev/sda7 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/sdb1 /media/BackupAuto ext3 defaults 0 2 /dev/sdb2 /media/Win-Me vfat defaults,umask=007 0 2 /dev/sdb3 /media/Linux ext3 defaults 0 2 /dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 vfat rw,user,noauto 0 0 # Create the following new directories:Herb Cee wrote: ======================= /media/Win-Me /media/Linux Note: ====Instead of umask=007, you could set the your uid and gid directly as: uid=xxx,gid=yyy Where "xxx" is your userid numeric value and "yyy" is your default groupid numeric value. Setting umask=000 will let anyone read/write the partition and can be used as well.Lots of options in how you set this up. <http://my.opera.com/lounge/forums/topic.dml?id=83440> <http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html> -Lee
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