[CS-FSLUG] Mounted filesystem permissions

[Dave & Ella McMullen]

Do you need to have that partition as vfat? vfat partitions don't do well
with permissions.
.            Dave McMullen


David McGlone wrote:
> 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?
>
> --
> Blessings
> David M.
> I have been driven to my knees many times by the overwhelming conviction
> that
> I had nowhere else to go.
>
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