On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 14:44:14 -0800, you wrote: >Dennis Calhoun wrote: >> On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 23:19:03 +0100, you wrote: >> >> >>>Am Mi, den 24.12.2003 schrieb Dennis Calhoun um 23:09: >>> >>>>Yup, it seems very odd to me and I've found no way around it, but when >>>>I try to use *any* means of changing the permissions on certain >>>>things, root is denied the ability to do so. I want to make a slave >>>>drive, that I've properly mounted, open for writing to it under my >>>>regular username instead of having to log out completely and log back >>>>in as root. So far I cannot find a way for root to be able to change >>>>this. >>>> >>>>Any idea why this is and what I can do about it? >>>>If more info is needed, please be simple and clear about exactly what >>>>you want me to get from where and I will gladly supply it. >> >> >> >>>I bet the drive/partition you are speaking about has a fat32/ntfs >>>filesystem on it. On such systems you can't chmod/chown. >> >> >> Hi Alexander >> >> Yes, it is fat32 (or vfat as linux wants it called). Thing is, as the >> owner, root, I can read, write and execute... as any other user I >> cannot write to it. >> >> It really stinks to have to completely log out and then log in as root >> to be able to write to that drive. The same situation exits on another >> windows partition too. Is there ANY way to enable my regular user to >> write to these? > > Use one of the fat mount options for mount. ONE of? Which one? I've having a hard enough time of learning about Linux as it is. This is all so foreign to me that I've NO idea what a lot of this stuff means or what it will or will not do. Dennis
