VFAT: Format a Shared Volume and Mount It by UUID with Owners

The finance team swaps files with Windows laptops, so their shared volume has to be FAT. Partition 1 of a new disk is set aside for it: /dev/s9disk1 (200 MiB).

1. Create a VFAT filesystem on /dev/s9disk1 with the label FINANCE.

2. Add an /etc/fstab entry that mounts it at /mnt/finance at boot. Refer to it by UUID or label, never by device name.

3. FAT stores no owners or permission bits, so set them with mount options: files belong to user alice and group finance, and other users get no access.

About this lab box: its kernel has no VFAT driver, so a real mount answers "unknown filesystem type 'vfat'" here, and that is not your mistake. Everything up to the kernel call still works: mount --fake -v /mnt/finance reads your fstab line and finds the device exactly like a real boot would, then stops. Grading uses that dry run, the filesystem itself (blkid), and your mount options. On a real RHEL host the same fstab line mounts with mount /mnt/finance. The ticket is in /root/case/brief.txt.