On 10/25/2010 01:27 AM, sumatheja wrote: > Thanks for responding. I have the following line in the /etc/fstab file > > UUID=<something> /home/office vfat uid=500,users,rw,exec 0 0 > > but still the directory is not allowing user with id 500 to write its > only giving read and execute permission. Am i missing something?? The mountpoint has to permit write operations if you're trying to write to the root of the volume. So unmount the volume, make sure the /home/office directory has the appropriate permissions, then mount the volume. Note also that vfat volumes themselves do not have the concept of permissions or ownership of files. > > On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 3:42 AM, JD<jd1008@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 10/23/2010 10:22 AM, sumatheja wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> I have made a partition in my hard disk and mounted it to >>> /media/xyz. But i'm unable to change the permissions of the mounted >>> directory at all. >>> I want to give read/write permissions to some of the users other than root. >>> >> Well, I have a vfat partition mounted from fstab, >> in which I grant group access to a specific gid. >> >> /dev/sde3 /sde3 vfat gid=777,user,rw,exec 0 0 >> >> users in group 777 can read/write/execute. >> They can execute the executable files in wine. >> >> Users in group 777 can mount and unmount. >> In order to accomplish this, >> the group permissions on /sdd3 and /dev/sdd3 is rwx, >> and the gid of /sde3 and /dev/sde3 is 777. >> >> Good luck. >> >> -- >> users mailing list >> users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> To unsubscribe or change subscription options: >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines >> > > > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, C2 Hosting ricks@xxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - "Do you suffer from long-term memory loss?" "I don't remember" - - -- Chumbawumba, "Amnesia" (TubThumping) - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines