John Richards wrote:
> I would much prefer to be able to incorporate this in the fstab file,
> but no wording I have tried seems to work.
>
> Can anyone show me the way?

Have you read the msdosfs(5) man page?
HTH
--
Torfinn Ingolfsen,
Norway

Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> John Richards wrote:
>> I would much prefer to be able to incorporate this in the fstab file,
>> but no wording I have tried seems to work.
>>
>> Can anyone show me the way?
>
> Have you read the msdosfs(5) man page?
> HTH
I did indeed, but

/dev/ad0s2 /mnt/ad0s2 msdosfs rw 0 0

does not in fact make files rw, only ro. After that I need to run umount
and then my script anyway to get rw.

Any other suggestion?

In article John Richards
writes:
>Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
>> John Richards wrote:
>>> I would much prefer to be able to incorporate this in the fstab file,
>>> but no wording I have tried seems to work.
>>>
>>> Can anyone show me the way?
>>
>> Have you read the msdosfs(5) man page?
>> HTH
>I did indeed, but
>
>/dev/ad0s2 /mnt/ad0s2 msdosfs rw 0 0
>
>does not in fact make files rw, only ro.

They're presumably not read-only, but only the owner (in this case root)
has write permission.

> After that I need to run umount
>and then my script anyway to get rw.

And your script sets mode 777, i.e. read-write(-execute) for everyone,
by means of the -m option... The mount_msdosfs(8) man page says:

-m mask
Specify the maximum file permissions for files in the file sys-
tem. [...] The default mask is taken from
the directory on which the file system is being mounted.

I.e. try a chmod 777 /mnt/ad0s2 before doing the mount-via-fstab.

--Per Hedeland
per@hedeland.org

On 10:28 Sun 21 Jan , John Richards wrote:
> Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> >John Richards wrote:
> >>I would much prefer to be able to incorporate this in the fstab file, but no wording I have tried seems to work.
> >>
> >>Can anyone show me the way?
> >Have you read the msdosfs(5) man page?
> >HTH
> I did indeed, but
>
> /dev/ad0s2 /mnt/ad0s2 msdosfs rw 0 0
>
> does not in fact make files rw, only ro. After that I need to run umount and then my script anyway to get rw.
>
> Any other suggestion?
You can try with uid/gid options in fstab file:
/dev/ad0s2 /mnt/ad0s2 msdosfs rw,-u=your_uid,-g=your_gid 0 0

bye

nikilux wrote:

> On 10:28 Sun 21 Jan , John Richards wrote:
>> Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
>> >John Richards wrote:
>> >>I would much prefer to be able to incorporate this in the fstab file,
>> >>but no wording I have tried seems to work.
>> >>
>> >>Can anyone show me the way?
>> >Have you read the msdosfs(5) man page?
>> >HTH
>> I did indeed, but
>>
>> /dev/ad0s2 /mnt/ad0s2 msdosfs rw 0 0
>>
>> does not in fact make files rw, only ro. After that I need to run umount
>> and then my script anyway to get rw.
>>
>> Any other suggestion?
> You can try with uid/gid options in fstab file:
> /dev/ad0s2 /mnt/ad0s2 msdosfs rw,-u=your_uid,-g=your_gid 0 0
>
> bye

Also, keep in mind that the directory you mount to needs to be owned by the
user/gid.

-Jason