[vox-tech] FSTAB Questions

[Jonathan Stickel]

David Hummel wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 11:03:14AM -0800, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
> 
>>Since the partition is mounted as root, and fat32 doesn't really do
>>file ownership, all the files and permissions are set to root when it
>>gets mounted automatically during boot.  So without the umask entry,
>>no one except root can write to the drive.
> 
> 
> Unless you're using the "user" or "users" mount options.
> 
> 
>>Perhaps use the "noauto,owner,rw" options like a cdrom so that the
>>partition belongs to the mounting user.  But the user then has to
>>mount it manually at some point.
> 
> 
> /dev/hda1    /windows    vfat    auto,rw,user,umask=0 0 0
> 
But won't the "user" be root since it gets mounted by root at boot?