On Sat, 06 May 2000, you wrote:
> Michael....(as root) add the below option to the options in
> the line listing your dos partition in your /etc/fstab file.
>
> umask=0
>
> Alan
>
>
> "Michael A. Kellogg" wrote:
> >
> > Hi Folks! Gotta a question . . .
> >
> > I really enjoy Mandrake 7.0 a great deal. Because some of my apps are still
> > Windows based, I still have a dos partition on my drive. I can bring it up in
> > LInux but am unable to write to it. Anyone know how I could enable the
> > partition to write? Thanks!
> > Mike
The entire partition (every file in it) belongs to root; permissions are
rwxr--r-- for data files, and rw-r--r-- for (recognised) program files.
Even root cannot give you the right to write into it (if root tries to change
permissions, nothing complains, but nothing is cahnged either), nor make you
ownre of the files.
See my mail "Coordinating address books2, where I ask the same question and
give a (ugly) solution.
