On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 21:23:56 -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: >Trevor Smith wrote: >> >> 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 > >'ls -l' should show you that only the root user can write to that disk >given those mount options. Others have suggested alternatives that may >help you. If you're not really using "default" (and maybe you're not >since you say you can read and write to the drive...), then you might >have another issue. Damn. :-( I just went and played with it again and sure enough, user "trevor" can not mv a file from his home directory to /mnt/win2k. I logged out, logged in as root, changed the fstab line to say: /dev/hda5 /mnt/win2k vfat defaults,users 0 0 I logged out and back in as 'trevor' and this what I got when I tried to move a file from the command line: [trevor@localhost trevor]$ ls -la EnumerExample.java -rw-rw-r-- 1 trevor trevor 647 Dec 2 08:43 EnumerExample.java [trevor@localhost trevor]$ mv EnumerExample.java /mnt/win2k/ mv: cannot create regular file `/mnt/win2k/EnumerExample.java': Permission denied [trevor@localhost trevor]$ So, linux won't give me permission to write to /mnt/win2k. What do I set in fstab so that it *will*? Bizarrely, dragging and dropping the file while logged in as root causes a pop-up error message to be displayed (it says I don't have permission) but the file IS moved (but only when logged in as root). >One problem you may run in to, which I did, is that Windows may somehow >mark the local user "home directories" as unwritable. I don't >understand how, but I had a VFAT fs with Win2k where I could write to >any part of the disk except "/Documents and Settings". No file or >folder under there could be modified by any user under Linux, including >root. > >You might just need to save your files to some other folder. No, I'm trying to copy/mv/write to the root directory on the vfat partition. Of course, it's a FAT32 partition. Is that the same as "VFAT"? Or might I be running into some problem because VFAT != FAT32 ? -- Trevor Smith | trevor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
