OS: SuSE 9.1 "Other" OS: M$ XP Pro I installed SuSE on second hard drive, creating a 2Gb FAT32 partition during the SuSE installation for sharing files between Windoze and SuSE. Problem: I copied some stuff from the Winders side to the /local (FAT32) partition and can read it fine from SuSE BUT cannot write anything to these directories / files as the are owned by root:root with permissions 755 which even root cannot change! I have no problems creating files from Windoze all of which have owner root:root and permissions 755 What can I do to fix this so mere mortals can write to the /local filesystem from SuSE? Thank you, Lucky Leavell
* Lucky Leavell
Problem: I copied some stuff from the Winders side to the /local (FAT32) partition and can read it fine from SuSE BUT cannot write anything to these directories / files as the are owned by root:root with permissions 755 which even root cannot change! I have no problems creating files from Windoze all of which have owner root:root and permissions 755
Access is controlled by the mount parameters. man mount pay heed to rw, user and users -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/photos
On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Lucky Leavell
[07-07-04 18:04]: Problem: I copied some stuff from the Winders side to the /local (FAT32) partition and can read it fine from SuSE BUT cannot write anything to these directories / files as the are owned by root:root with permissions 755 which even root cannot change! I have no problems creating files from Windoze all of which have owner root:root and permissions 755
Access is controlled by the mount parameters.
man mount pay heed to rw, user and users
Well, duh! Of course Winders has no concept of ownership or permissions, at least not in the *nix sense. Makes sense now. Thank you, Lucky Leavell
On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 16:06, Lucky Leavell wrote:
OS: SuSE 9.1 "Other" OS: M$ XP Pro
I installed SuSE on second hard drive, creating a 2Gb FAT32 partition during the SuSE installation for sharing files between Windoze and SuSE.
Problem: I copied some stuff from the Winders side to the /local (FAT32) partition and can read it fine from SuSE BUT cannot write anything to these directories / files as the are owned by root:root with permissions 755 which even root cannot change! I have no problems creating files from Windoze all of which have owner root:root and permissions 755
What can I do to fix this so mere mortals can write to the /local filesystem from SuSE?
Your user ID has changed from 500 to 1000 so If your fstab entry for windows partitions has 500 change it to 1000. I forgot when reinstalling mine for vfat. Once done I had access again also users should be in that line. CWSIV
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Carl William Spitzer IV
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Lucky Leavell
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Patrick Shanahan