-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I had to reinstall 8.2 yesterday, and am having a bit of a problem. The machine is a dual boot Win2K / Linux. 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? tia - ---Michael -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFACtjFjeziQOokQnARAgSjAJ9G8ThVy3JbcHPa5wQjiO7doJQEwACgjh93 DEun5g6WZJgoOXTdO6OPMl8= =W+Pg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Sunday 18 January 2004 20:04, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
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I had to reinstall 8.2 yesterday, and am having a bit of a problem. The machine is a dual boot Win2K / Linux. 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
On Sunday 18 January 2004 13:11, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Sunday 18 January 2004 20:04, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
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I had to reinstall 8.2 yesterday, and am having a bit of a problem. The machine is a dual boot Win2K / Linux. 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.
AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGG! Of course. I should have known instantly, I even printed out my fstab before starting. Thanks for the help!
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
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 15:48, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote:
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
In my experience, mount doesn't pick up on group names. Try with "uid=100" instead (or whatever group number 'users' is on that machine)
Sjoerd Hiemstra
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.
Even in this case you can experiment. You can create the FAT filesystem on a floppy or via the loop device in a file, see also "man mkdosfs". -- A.M.
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