Mike McCarty 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 > > I believe that 755 is good enough. The mount point itself does not > need to be writable. > Do the setting of the mount point before the file system is mounted affect anything? At lease for vfat partitions, the permissions are changed by the mount command. [root@mikkel rules.d]# ls -ld /mnt/windows drwxrwxrwx 26 root root 32768 Dec 31 1969 /mnt/windows/ [root@mikkel rules.d]# umount /mnt/windows [root@mikkel rules.d]# ls -ld /mnt/windows drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 26 2005 /mnt/windows/ [root@mikkel rules.d]# mount /mnt/windows [root@mikkel rules.d]# ls -ld /mnt/windows drwxrwxrwx 26 root root 32768 Dec 31 1969 /mnt/windows/ Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
