aperahama Posted January 17, 2005 Report Share Posted January 17, 2005 I am using a 256Mb USB pen drive with Mandrake 10.1. Whenever I plug it in, the permissions are rwxr-wr-w. There is no entry in the fstab until I plug in the drive and then the fstab changes, the following line is added to the end of the file:- /dev/sda1 /mnt/removable auto umask=0022,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,kudzu,codepage=850,noauto,exec,users 0 0 When I remove the drive this line disappears so editing the fstab does not work. I want to change the umask option but I can't figure out where I need to make the change. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. [moved from Installing Mandrake by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted January 18, 2005 Report Share Posted January 18, 2005 Well.. according to the permission listing, (rwxr-wr-w), anyone can read and write into the drive. So there should be no problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aperahama Posted January 18, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2005 Sorry, my mistake :woops: Should be rwxr-xr-x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aperahama Posted January 18, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2005 (edited) I forgot to add that I can write to the disk as root no problem. Edited January 18, 2005 by aperahama Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arthur Posted January 18, 2005 Report Share Posted January 18, 2005 well, making umask=000 will give you write access for users, however as you say the fstab disappears if you remove it...does mandrake have a config file for magicdev or supermount? i sure hope so. in any case, there should be a file called /dev/sda1, try as root, "chmod +w /dev/sda1". or "chmod 777 /dev/sda1" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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