I looked up how to made vfat writable by user, and about 2 minutes
of googling turned up the answer. But, as I'm on a project where I
have to switch back and forth between Linux and The Windowing System
Whose Name Shall Not Be Mentioned, and it was getting annoying having
to mount my vfat partition by hand every time I booted. So I came
up with this:
if ! grep -q '/E' /etc/mtab ; then mount /E ; fi

and plunked it in my .profile. :-)

I've been a programmer since nineteen-mumble-mumble; I think I see the
difference between "programming" and "scripting" - I can't imagine
a "programming" language where you could write an expression like
that without any parentheses! ;-)

Cheers!
Rich

On 2006-12-21, Rich Grise <rich@example.net> wrote:
> I looked up how to made vfat writable by user, and about 2 minutes
> of googling turned up the answer. But, as I'm on a project where I
> have to switch back and forth between Linux and The Windowing System
> Whose Name Shall Not Be Mentioned, and it was getting annoying having
> to mount my vfat partition by hand every time I booted. So I came
> up with this:
> if ! grep -q '/E' /etc/mtab ; then mount /E ; fi
>
> and plunked it in my .profile. :-)
>
> I've been a programmer since nineteen-mumble-mumble; I think I see the
> difference between "programming" and "scripting" - I can't imagine
> a "programming" language where you could write an expression like
> that without any parentheses! ;-)
>
> Cheers!
> Rich

man fstab

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Rich Grise wrote:
> I looked up how to made vfat writable by user, and about 2 minutes
> of googling turned up the answer. But, as I'm on a project where I
> have to switch back and forth between Linux and The Windowing System
> Whose Name Shall Not Be Mentioned, and it was getting annoying having
> to mount my vfat partition by hand every time I booted. So I came
> up with this:
> if ! grep -q '/E' /etc/mtab ; then mount /E ; fi
>
> and plunked it in my .profile. :-)

I guess this has some relation to your other thread: "An Epiphany".

If you want to mount a disk automatic just don't use "noauto"
as a mount option. If you want write access for a user (or group of
users) to the partition you don't have to mount it by that user.
Just specify the proper uid, gid, dmask and fmask to be used and
forget the "user" option that was mentioned on the site that
google happened to find for you.

The description of the "gid" option on that site is plain wrong
anyway. It is not used to specify the users that are allowed
to mount the partition, but to specify the group-ownership
after mounting.

Have a look at the mount and fstab manpages.

>
> I've been a programmer since nineteen-mumble-mumble; I think I see the
> difference between "programming" and "scripting" - I can't imagine
> a "programming" language where you could write an expression like
> that without any parentheses! ;-)
>
> Cheers!
> Rich
>

Regards,

Kees.

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