Thanks for the information. I did read the man page for mount, but didn't understand how to do this. I would like to make the vfat partition readable/writeable by everyone. I realize that this may have security issues, but I can live with it. Other family members want to be able to access their win98 files while I have linux running. Can anyone give me an example of an fstab entry that would do this? The current entry is: /dev/hdc1 /WINDOWS vfat defaults 0 0 Thanks, Alan Lenz Grimmer wrote:

Hi,

On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Alan Riggins wrote:

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I have a dual boot (win98/SuSE6.3) system, and have mounted a small windows vfat partition in linux. The partition is read only for normal users. I would like to change permissions on this partition to allow users to read/write to this partition.

I tried chmod and chown as root, but get 'Operation not permitted' errors. This is obviously not how to do it. Can someone help me out with this?

You have to provide the permissions as a mount option (mode=xxx) in /etc/fstab. See "man mount" for more info.

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This vorks for me (see /dev/hda1 below): /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hda8 / reiserfs defaults 1 1 /dev/hda7 /usr reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hda1 /dos vfat noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hda2 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda6 /home reiserfs defaults 1 2 193.63.255.4:/public/packages/OpenBSD /mnt nfs ro,noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hdc /cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/fd0 /floppy vfat noauto,user 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 Have a lot of fun! Anders

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Alan Riggins skrev 2000-04-26, kl. 14.59.46 angående ämnet Re: [SLE] vfat permissions:

Thanks for the information. I did read the man page for mount, but didn't understand how to do this. I would like to make the vfat partition readable/writeable by everyone. I realize that this may have security issues, but I can live with it. Other family members want to be able to access their win98 files while I have linux running. Can anyone give me an example of an fstab entry that would do this? The current entry is:

/dev/hdc1 /WINDOWS vfat defaults 0 0

Thanks, Alan

Lenz Grimmer wrote:

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Hi,

On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Alan Riggins wrote:

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I have a dual boot (win98/SuSE6.3) system, and have mounted a small windows vfat partition in linux. The partition is read only for normal users. I would like to change permissions on this partition to allow users to read/write to this partition.

I tried chmod and chown as root, but get 'Operation not permitted' errors. This is obviously not how to do it. Can someone help me out with this?

You have to provide the permissions as a mount option (mode=xxx) in /etc/fstab. See "man mount" for more info.

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Cheedu wrote:

hi

Again this is about the permissions on dos filesystems. The man pages refer to "umsdos" . How do i use it ?

Thanx in advance cheedu

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Hi, I just joined this list & I read your message. I believe 'umsdos' is a tool best suited for use when you want to run Linux within an MSDOS/Win-based system without repartitioning & reformatting your hard disk (e.g. for testing & evaluation purposes). If you want to read & write files on your FAT(DOS) filesystems from within Linux, you can do it very simply by mounting the DOS filesystem into a Linux directory: mount -v -t vfat /dev/<DOS partition> / is an existing (empty) directory in the Linux filesystem. You can find out where in your partition table the DOS filesystem is by using one of the disk-partitioning programs that come with Linux (cfdisk or fdisk, I prefer the first one). If you want to have this access on a permanent basis, you can use the Yast configuration tool in order to embed the mounting in the /etc/fstab file. I hope that this really helps you. Panos Platon Tsapralis. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/