On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 01:16:40 +0300, Markku Kolkka wrote: > Shelagh kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika torstai, 19. elokuuta > 2004 00:56): >> I am finally getting around to fixing up a rew niggling >> irritations. Or trying to. I haven't been able to write to my >> windows partition and have tried changing the ownership of it >> from root to me. > > Windows partitions don't support Linux file protection and > ownership. The "owner" of the files and mode for all files and > directories is set when the partition is mounted by options > given to the mount command. See the documentation for "umask" > and "uid" options. So this means editing my fstab file? Would it look something like this? /dev/hda1 /mnt/win98 vfat auto,quiet,exec,(users)*0 0 *this is the change Shelagh > -- > Markku Kolkka > markku.kolkka@xxxxxx
