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From: Eduardo Viruena Silva <mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx>
To: Adam Olsen <adamolsen@net-bizz.com>
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On Fri, 9 May 2003, Adam Olsen wrote:

> I want to make it so that my vfat partition is
> mounted at boot and writable by the user 'synic'.  The steps I have
> taken so far are these:
>
> The device is /dev/ad1s2
> The device has these permissions: crwxrwx---   2 root     operator 116,
> 131090 May  8 04:12 /dev/ad2s1
>
> synic is in the group operator
> the fstab line looks like this: /dev/ad1s2              /mnt/ad1s2
> msdos   rw              0       0
>
>
> What else do I need to do?  I can write to the partition as root, but
> never as the user "synic".


create the mount point.
let us say:    /synspace

mkdir /synspace
chown root:operator /synspace


>
> Thanks,
>
> Adam
>

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