On Friday 24 February 2006 03:36, nicola .:kOoLiNuS:. losito wrote:
Alle 08:35, venerdì 24 febbraio 2006, Bob S ha scritto:
When I was running 9.2 I used to use the space on the Fat32 system to back up files for my SuSE system. No problem. Worked well.
Since I installed 10.0 I cannot do that anymore. I can however, copy anything from the Fat32 to my SuSE partitions without any problems, but not the other way around. What has happened to change that? It cannot be a permissions problem because Fat32 does not recognize them.
It's a permission issue instead. The "defaults" voice in the fstab row means that the fat32 partition it's owned by root, and randomly - as I have seen - some files have the root ownership, some files not..
Actually my fstab lines looks like this:
/dev/hdb2 /mnt/windata vfat users,rw,gid=100,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=950 0 0
where gid=100 it's relative to the users group .... so far it's working. You can also try the umask=0 {or umask=0000} and see what happens ..
Thanks James, nicola Yes, had to get rid of defaults and add the gid & umask. Works now, Don't understand why "defaults" works on the ext3 partitions and not the fat partirion though. Another one of life's linux mysteries I guess. Thanks again Bob S.