[vox-tech] good reference source for fstab permissions

[Jonathan Stickel]

Donald Childs wrote:
> Thanks for all the assistance . I'm able to write to the vfat partition
> now, using:
> 
> /dev/hdf4    /mnt/fat    vfat user,rw,uid=[user],gid=[workgroup] 0 0
> 
> but will go back and add the showexec attribute.

This is different from what I use for my fat32 partition(s).  I have in 
my fstab:

/dev/hda5  /Documents  vfat  defaults,quiet,umask=0000  0 0

I'd like to learn a little more about these mount options, if someone 
cares to enlighten me:

My method mounts on bootup, allows all users read/write permission, and 
quiets failed attempts to change file ownership/permissions.  Reading a 
little of the man page, I get the impression that "umask=0000" and 
"quiet" essentially overrides the "suid" implied by using the "default" 
option.  Is this about right?

It seems to me Donald's fstab entry only gives read/write permission to 
[user] and [workgroup].  Also, it is not clear to me whether the 
partition would mount on startup or with "mount -a" ("auto" option is 
not specified).  But I can see the ownership/permission problems of fat 
is solved by assigning the entire partition to just one user.  How am I 
here?

I am also curious about the "showexec" option.  If I used it, would it 
make "quiet" unnecessary?

Thanks,
Jonathan