Change permissions

[Togop]

Hi all,
When I installed fedora, I set one partition to automount as /data. I want it to be accessible by everyone who uses the computer. However, it now doesn't let me change the permissions at all. What should I do?

The SELinux context is dosfs_t
I can't change that either.

[Fenrin]

I don't know much about SELinux. But I would try it with this approach: add every user to a common group e.g. users (you can change the group settings in the file /etc/group), then change the ownership of /data with

su
chown -R :users /data

(where users is the common group)

And then allow the group to read, write and excecute /data with the command

chmod -R g+rwx /data

Maybe it works then

[domg472]

dosfs does not support (extended) attributes (selinux security contexts)

So you cannot change the type. You can maybe however (if you so desire) mount that partitions using another context with the mount command and context option (see: man mount)

[sidebrnz]

I presume you mount the partition through /etc/fstab. If so, you can change the mount options to get what you want. Please post the appropriate line and I'll show you how to get the permissions you need.

[Togop]

Here's the mount line:
UUID=F660-A125 /data vfat umask=0077,shortname=winnt 0 0

[sidebrnz]

If you want the partition to be world-writable, change that to umask=0000. Then, after saving your work, and still as root, run this:

mount -a

which will remount everything in fstab.