Fwd: Fwd: FW: [plug] ubuntu 6.06 and file permissions for fat32

[Daniel Pearson (Flashware Solutions)]

man sudo

Josh Fletcher wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried both EricS and Michael's edits to fstab, but the most I got 
> was being able to sudo access the folder. On the actual drive I can do 
> stuff, but when I try to access that folder I get a permission denied 
> unless the command has been sudo'd...
>
> By the by, what's the easiest way to open a root terminal in Ubuntu?
>
> Thanks, Josh
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: *Michael Holland * <myk at myk.id.au <mailto:myk at myk.id.au>>
> Date: Sep 21, 2006 8:38 AM
> Subject: Re: Fwd: FW: [plug] ubuntu 6.06 and file permissions for fat32
> To: plug at plug.org.au <mailto:plug at plug.org.au>
>
> > > /dev/hda4       /media/documents 
> vfat    defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46
>
> That'll give access to group 46. Are you a member?
> Simplest fix is to change to 'umask=000' and give everyone full access.
>
> > /dev/hda4 /media/documents vfat
> > umask=0,user,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-15 0 0
>
> Do you want 'user' for a hard disk partition?
>
> One warning: Don't change the data while windoze is hibernating.
>
> Is there a way to get XP to unmount a FAT32 partiton before hibernating?
>
>
> Mike.
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