No access to windows fat partition for users
I've got SuSE 10.0 Pro (not opensuse) and I'm running Gnome. I have a dual boot system with a windows fat32 partition so that I can keep interchangeable files there. I can't do anything with the partition, however, as a user. I can do all the normal stuff as root. I've tried changing ownership but the computer won't allow it. This is my attempt via terminal as root (superuser): linux:/home/jack # cd /windows linux:/windows # dir total 25 drwxr-xr-x 4 jack root 96 2005-10-24 18:41 . drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 544 2005-10-23 17:08 .. dr-xr-xr-x 1 root users 8192 2005-10-23 15:27 C drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 16384 2005-10-24 18:46 D linux:/windows # chown jack D chown: changing ownership of `D': Operation not permitted linux:/windows # Because I know just enough to be a danger to my system, I don't recall how to change permissions. I tried doing it via konqueror (again as superuser) but without success. I didn't have this problem in 9.3, so I'm not quite sure what to do. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance Jack
Tuesday 25 Oct 2005 05:26 samaye Jack Brooks alekhiit:
Because I know just enough to be a danger to my system, I don't recall how to change permissions.
chmod [numericmode] FILE From man chmod: A numeric mode is from one to four octal digits (0-7), derived by adding up the bits with values 4, 2, and 1. Any omitted digits are assumed to be leading zeros. The first digit selects the set user ID (4) and set group ID (2) and sticky (1) attributes. The second digit selects permissions for the user who owns the file: read (4), write (2), and execute (1); the third selects permissions for other users in the file's group, with the same values; and the fourth for other users not in the file's group, with the same values.
Jack Brooks a écrit :
I've got SuSE 10.0 Pro (not opensuse) and I'm running Gnome. I have a dual boot system with a windows fat32 partition so that I can keep interchangeable files there. I can't do anything with the partition, however, as a user. I can do all the normal stuff as root. I've tried changing ownership but the computer won't allow it. This is my attempt via terminal as root (superuser):
linux:/home/jack # cd /windows linux:/windows # dir total 25 drwxr-xr-x 4 jack root 96 2005-10-24 18:41 . drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 544 2005-10-23 17:08 .. dr-xr-xr-x 1 root users 8192 2005-10-23 15:27 C drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 16384 2005-10-24 18:46 D linux:/windows # chown jack D chown: changing ownership of `D': Operation not permitted linux:/windows #
Because I know just enough to be a danger to my system, I don't recall how to change permissions. I tried doing it via konqueror (again as superuser) but without success. I didn't have this problem in 9.3, so I'm not quite sure what to do. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Jack
Hello, Just add : umask=000 as an option in fstab for this partition and it'll work. Michel.
On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 18:56 -0500, Jack Brooks wrote:
I've got SuSE 10.0 Pro (not opensuse) and I'm running Gnome. I have a dual boot system with a windows fat32 partition so that I can keep interchangeable files there. I can't do anything with the partition, however, as a user. I can do all the normal stuff as root. I've tried changing ownership but the computer won't allow it. This is my attempt via terminal as root (superuser):
linux:/home/jack # cd /windows linux:/windows # dir total 25 drwxr-xr-x 4 jack root 96 2005-10-24 18:41 . drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 544 2005-10-23 17:08 .. dr-xr-xr-x 1 root users 8192 2005-10-23 15:27 C drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 16384 2005-10-24 18:46 D linux:/windows # chown jack D chown: changing ownership of `D': Operation not permitted linux:/windows #
Because I know just enough to be a danger to my system, I don't recall how to change permissions. I tried doing it via konqueror (again as superuser) but without success. I didn't have this problem in 9.3, so I'm not quite sure what to do. Any help would be appreciated.
Sounds like a simple enough thing to fix, have a look at your /etc/fstab file. The section from mine dealing with my windows partition (read and write by users) is below: /dev/hda1 /mnt/ME vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 Works for me. :) Mike
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