ilia_kr Posted February 27, 2007 Report Share Posted February 27, 2007 (edited) Hi there, i have a problem: I want to mount my windows partition on Fedora 4 and would like all users to have full access to it. By default the partition mounts so only root can write to it. When i use chmod to change the permissions: chmod 777 my-mount-folder it does nothing. I can set all permissions except one: only root can write to that folder. Nautilus doesn't allow me to change it too. What shall i do to? Thanks. Edited February 27, 2007 by ilia_kr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted February 27, 2007 Report Share Posted February 27, 2007 Use umask=0 in the options line in fstab, I'm presuming it's FAT and not NTFS based. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilia_kr Posted February 27, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2007 Thanks, man, now it works. But what does that line mean? Another question: how can i remount all devices without rebooting? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted February 27, 2007 Report Share Posted February 27, 2007 The umask puts a mask that effectively gives you full rights without having to work out setting them manually. This gives full rights to all users on the system, but you can tie it down with a different umask to restrict further. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilia_kr Posted February 27, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2007 Ok, thanks again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilia_kr Posted April 19, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2007 But how can I remount all devices without rebooting? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jboy Posted April 19, 2007 Report Share Posted April 19, 2007 (edited) mount -a (assuming they're set up in /etc/fstab) Edited April 19, 2007 by jboy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilia_kr Posted April 19, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2007 mount -a (assuming they're set up in /etc/fstab) Yes, thanks, but "mount -a" just mounts all devices that are listed in fstab (according to man pages), but doesn't remount them all to reveal all changes. Now when I think about this, it is impossible to remount all devices so the OS could still run... So my question was pointless... Thank you jboy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted April 19, 2007 Report Share Posted April 19, 2007 In fact it might be possible to sort-of "refresh" mount options for at least some mount points. I've never tried it, but you may want to try the "-o remount" option; see mount man page. Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilia_kr Posted April 19, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2007 In fact it might be possible to sort-of "refresh" mount options for at least some mount points. I've never tried it, but you may want to try the "-o remount" option; see mount man page. Yves. Didn't notice this section in man file, thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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