Cant access hard drive - Newbie mistake?

[scott36]

Hi there,

I believe that this is a newbie mistake, but I cant access my fat32 partition from my fresh F12 as normal user (read only).

Thats how the partition is mounted at the moment:

/dev/sda2 on /data type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,gid=100,umask=0002,utf8=true)

What do I need to change to have access as user?

Chown is not working as I get the error:
Chown ... Operation not permitted.

The owner is root at the moment.

Thanks for every hint.

Scott

[jpollard]

Try changing the umask value. 002 removes execute capabilities on directories,
which prevents listing the contents.

If you want to prevent execution of binaries (not unreasonable) you can set
dmask=0000 (which should allow everything on directories) and
fmask=0222 (which should prevent execution of files).

If the disk is mounted "ro" the write permissions are a don't care, though you could
disable write on the dmask and fmask.

[JK3MP]

Obviously you can't change permissions or owner from a non root account. Do you not have root access?

[scott36]

Yes, I do have root access to mount and chown, but there's the message that the operation is permitted. I'll try the changes in the fstab and let you know.

---------- Post added at 01:37 AM CST ---------- Previous post was Yesterday at 09:32 PM CST ----------

Well, I tried umask=0000 but there's still the same problem!

The only thing is that I am allowed as user to create files and folders but I cant change owner of the files (as root) with

chown -R USERNAME /data/

I still get the error that the operation is not allowed.

As well, when I delete an existing file I get the error that I cant move the data to the trash and the file needs to be deleted imediately.

What is wrong there?

[sidebrnz]

*Shrug!* I've always had good luck with using auto,umask=0000 as the only options. (If you don't want it mounted at boot, use noauto instead.) Of course, I want to be able to run programs under either wine or dosbox, and YMMV. As far as not changing the owner, I'm not sure if you can do that with vfat, any more than you could turn off execution, as the filesystem doesn't support that.