[CS-FSLUG] Mounted filesystem permissions

[David McGlone]

Hi all.

I have an extra partition on my computer that I use for a personal web server 
to do PHP development and I am having a problem changing permissions on files 
on that partition.

I am able to read and write to the partition, but recently I tried installing 
some PHP apps that I wanted to check out like wordpress and joomla and all of 
these types of apps said that I needed to change some directories to 777 and 
everything I have tried has failed to change the permissions.

So since I can't change the permissions on the files, the program will not 
install.

Here's how I have this partition set up:
fstab entry:

/dev/sda5  /home/david/www  vfat  user,auto  0  0

Permissions and ownership:

drwxr-xr-x 20 david david     0 2009-12-02 13:47 www


User can unmount and mount the filesystem

I have tried using umask=777 in my fstab line, but when I do that, I can't 
even browse the server at all for some reason.

I'm stumped. Any Ideas?

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Blessings
David M.
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