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? > > Thanks for the help! --Jerry > Do you just want UID 500 to have access, or all users? I would use something this to let all users have access. /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows ntfs umask=0,user,noexec 0 0 Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
