[CS-FSLUG] Mounted filesystem permissions

[David McGlone]

On Thursday 03 December 2009 00:25:55 Dave & Ella McMullen wrote:
> Do you need to have that partition as vfat? vfat partitions don't do well
> with permissions.
> .            Dave McMullen

Hi Dave,

It doesn't have to be vfat, but I don't know of any other option that will 
enable me to share the partition with the windows clients on the network.

If there is another option, I wouldn't have any problem switching it.

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