From: Jack Brooks
Subj: [SLE] No access to windows fat partition for users Date: Mon Oct 24, 2005 7:57 pm Size: 1K To: suse-linux-e@suse.com 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):
It would be useful to know how it is mounted. What does the mount command list? How is the file system mounted? Is it read-only? fat32 file systems do not have a concept of an owner. So things like chown are meaningless. The deal with this, there is a uid= and gid= flag when mounting the system. This means. of course, that the whole file system belongs to one user/group. That is a deficiency of fat32. The mount command will show any changes from the defaults. -- Roger