Trevor, I do something similar with a USB disk. I found the following incantation for /etc/fstab line works for me: /dev/sda1 /flip2disk vfat uid=500,codepage=850,umask=0,gid=500,shortname=winnt,iocharset=iso8859-15,conv=auto,check=relaxed,posix 0 0 You will of course, need to change the UID/GID values to match your own account details. For more details look at the man page for the mount command. Hope this helps. Alan D On Monday 01 Dec 2003 4:49 pm, Trevor Smith wrote: > I've had limited exposure to unix/linux over the years. I've installed > FC1 about a million times lately (don't ask) and finally think I've > settled on a configuration with KDE that works quite nicely for me. > > I have a VFAT partition that I use with Win2k that I have made > available under linux by adding: > > /dev/hda5 /mnt/win2k VFAT default 0 0 > > to my /etc/fstab file (I'm typing from memory, but you get the picture > if there is a typo above). I can read and write to the drive, no > problem. > > However, I downloaded some files .java from the 'net, saved them to my > home directory (/home/trevor) and then tried to drag and drop them from > my linux partition to the aforementioned /mnt/win2k partition. KDE > and/or linux didn't like that. > > I logged out and back in as root and tried again and got some more > refusal from KDE. I tried setting all the permissions for the files I > wanted to move and dragged again and more or less got what I wanted, > but also got a warning. It was all sort of confusing so, my question: > > Is there any particular "trick" to moving files between my win2k and > linux partitions? Should I need to be root to do so? Do permissions > need to be set on a per-file basis? Is the line in my /etc/fstab file > correct? > > Thanks.
