On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 23:40 +0000, James Wilkinson wrote: > Gerhard Magnus wrote: > > I'm running FC5 and gnome on a machine dual booting with Windows and > > would like to read from/write to a Windows vfat partition. I've added > > this line to /etc/fstab: > > > > /dev/sdb1 /mnt/win vfat rw,noatime,uid=500,gid=500,user 0 0 > > > > Then, also as root: > > > > mkdir /mnt/win > > chmod 777 /mnt/win > > > > In linux, I can now read from the /mnt/win directory but can't write to > > it without root privileges. How should I set the privileges on this > > directory so that I can write to it as a user? Are the mount parameters > > in fstab correct? > > What's your user ID and group ID? You can run the id command to check. > Make sure they fit what's in the /etc/fstab above. they were both 500 > You might also like > to add dmask=2,fmask=113 to the options -- they give more usable default > permissions. this made it work -- thanks > > Don't try using Unix commands to change permissions on a vfat > filesystem -- It Don't Work Like That.
