[NBLUG/talk] Adding a used second HDD

Jeremy Turner jeremy at linuxwebguy.com
Wed Nov 17 10:57:08 PST 2004


On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 10:39:16AM -0800, troy wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 10:28:52AM -0800, Robert Hayes wrote:
> > I want to retain the files, but I can't change the permissions on them to 
> > allow moving, even when I'm logged in as root.
> Make sure it's mounted rw, is all I can think of:
> mount -t vfat -o rw,uid=bob,gid=bob /dev/hdd1 /mnt/something

Or possibly a umask issue?

mount -t vfat -o rw,uid=bob,gid=bob,umask=022 /dev/hdd1 /mnt/something

Jeremy




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