On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 20:11, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Sunday 18 January 2004 20:04, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
I need to be able to write to my/windows/C drive (it's FAT32), but am obviously missing something. I use the command:
chmod -R o+w /windows/c
I'm (almost) sure that this is what I've done in the past, but the permissions aren't changing.
Would someone be kind enough to let me know what I'm missing?
You are missing the fact that chmod is a unix command that has no effect on a windows file system. Permissions on fat32 are set at mount time, statically, since there aren't any permission bits to set in fat32.
look at "man mount", the section "Mount options for FAT". Probably you want the option "umask=000" (to give all users all permissions) or "uid=500" to give user id 500 ownership of the partition
There's someone I know who is brand new to Linux, has installed SUSE 8.2, is enthusiastic about it, but he reports that he cannot copy files to the Windows partition. This is his line in /etc/fstab for this: /dev/hda1 /windows/C vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=iso8859-1,code=437 0 0 Since I have no windows partition myself, I can't experiment with it. umask=0002 means that user and group have all permissions, right? So, what could be changed here in order to have write permissions for /windows/C ? TIA, SH