there have been more authoritative answers posted here but i solved this
problem by adding 'umask=o' to the options for the drive in question in
/etc/fstab, i know you can also set default user and group for dos
partition but i haven't done this as i'm the only user at the moment,
here is my entry for my dos drive in /etc/fstab
/dev/hda5 /mnt/drivee vfat user,exec,conv=auto,umask=0 0 0
i believe that the umask setting is calculated by working out the
numerical form of the permisions you wish to set for the drive and then
taking this value from 777, i.e user group and others have full
permissions if value is set to 777 so 777 minus 777 = 0.
bascule
Paul wrote:
>
> On Fri, 5 May 2000, 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
>
> I know that root can write on a DOS partition. DOn't know (yet) how a
> regular user is able to do that.
>
> Paul
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