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:
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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