Automount script

jonathen

Hi all,

I have just started using red hat on my dual boot laptop, and whilst I am fairly savvy with running a linux server, I have never used redhat as a desktop.

My partitions are:

XP
Scratch
RedHat

The Scratch partition is for my personal files which I use both in XP & RH. What I want, is when I boot in RH as a normal user, my partition Scratch autmounts to my /mnt dir, chmods all files to 777 and chowns all files to my normal user.

I can do all that manually, but it's a pain! Is there a way I can do this so that I can access my scratch partition in xp or rh without having to go through the manual hassle?

Any help appreciated,

Jonathen

goldbug

A nice easy hack (maybe not the "securest") would be to put an entry in /etc/fstab

something like:

/dev/hda2   /mnt/scratch   vfat   uid=1001,gid=1001,fmask=0777,dmask=0777   0  0

That usually does the trick.

You'll need to change the partition to be the right number for your system, and the user/group IDs accordingly. This also assumes your scratch drive is FAT/FAT32

jonathen

Excellent, that should do the trick - thanks alot 🙂

jonathen

Ah, I have a problem. That code mounts the drive nicely, and I can browse it etc, but cannot write to that folder. It must be permissions, but I don't see what...

goldbug

Not sure if this is the case, or even possible:

Could it be that you are writing to a preexisting folder, in which case, the permissions might be different for that specific folder?

With the mount set 0777, anyone should be able to write to it (as you already know).

Check to see who actually owns that mount and the folder in it. If it's root, than I screwed up in that fstab line or something (tho, I could've sworn that you can set fmask,dmask on vfat mounts, the UID could also be wrong. (set to your numerical UID))

jonathen

Doh! I forgot about the UID. That fixed it, thanks 🙂