Kai Zhang wrote:
appended this line to fstab now, still no joy /dev/sda5 /mnt/dos vfat auto,owner,rw,umask=0000 0 0
at boot the default owner is root. just try this, forget umask,
/dev/sda5 /mnt/dos vfat noauto,users,rw 0 0
log in as myself now and
cd /mnt/dos
bash: cd: /mnt/dos: Permission Denied
ls -l
d----------- 4 root users 16384 1970-01-01 01:00 dos
Pretty weird!