Thanks for your help. I knew it had to be something simple. :)
Dick
Scott Talbot wrote:
On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 18:05, Rick Chen wrote:
On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 10:56, Dick Brown wrote:
As I mentioned in a previous message, I'm running dual boot
WinXP/Fedora. To enable the easy access to certain data files from both
OS's, I've set up a vfat partition. My problem is that everything on
this partition has "root" as both owner and group, and only root has
write access, so I have to jump through hoops to edit any file there
while in Linux.
I've tried changing permissions, as well as user and group ownership,
but to no avail. I've looked in /etc/inittab and everything looks
normal (i.e., default). I'm sure there must be an easy way to do this,
but I'm still too new to Linux to know what it might be. Any help would
be appreciated.
Thanks,
Dick
edit your your /etc/fstab
/dev/hda8 /mnt/wind vfat user,uid=500,gid=500 0
0
note. change /dev/hda8 to match your windows partition
this will auto mount the windows partition on startup and permit user to
write to it.
This will work O.K. but if you add another user (s)he won't have access
to these files. Try this instead:
(From /etc/fstab)
/dev/hda5 /mnt/media vfat noauto,owner,users 0 0
the important item is <users> man says that this allows anyone to mount
the FS. Just be sure to chmod your mountpoint to the appropriate
permissions.
Scott
