I was initially trying to use ntfs and even root was unable to write to it. =( -Chuck On 1/12/08, Eberhard Roloff <tuxebi@gmx.de> wrote:
Chuck wrote:
I have a 300g drive with a vfat filesystem (created with mkfs.vfat) that I write files (well I want to write files to) to from both opensuse 10.3 and windows vista. (dual boot config, this filesystem is never mounted to both at once)
However, when booted into opensuse only root can write to the filesystem and chmod has no effect. (For example chmod 777 /mnt/data01/Documents (the mount point) appears to run successfully because $? = 0, however the permissions are not changed)
I did not see anywhere in vista where I could set permissions on the directory as you could in XP.
Vista (and XP is the same!!) cannot grant file access permissions to your drive because FAT does not support it.
In order to get this for NT4/w2k/XP/Vista/2k03, you will need to use ntfs instead.
kind regards Eberhard
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