On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 11:35:22AM -0400, John Aldrich wrote:
| On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, you wrote:
| > Dear Mandrake users,
| >
| > Does anybody know how to set write permission for users to a FAT32 partition
| > under MDK6.1 linux?
| >
| > As root I am able to read and write the mounted Windows partitions. As user, I
| > can only read from them. I tried chmod o+rw /dev/hda1 as root succesfully, (I
| > mean after ls -al the permissions are set) but it is still not possible to
| > write to those partitions as a USER.
| >
| > Anybody has an idea how to make those partitions writable for all regular
| > users?
| >
| Edit your /etc/fstab and put "user" in the tags for your
| Windows partition, but I advise against doing that and just
| use the "mtools" (mcopy, mdel, etc.) to manipulate files on
| the Fat32 partition.
That's interesting - I had never thought of using mtools for this
(only for floppies). Why would you prefer using mtools over mounting
the partition?
-- Alex
