Alan,
umask=0 works!
I didn't know it was possible for regular users to access FAT till now. Thanks.
Seve
-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Shoemaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Saturday, May 06, 2000 1:46 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Writing to Windows Partition as Linux user
>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
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