You can mount the win98 partition so that you own it by adding
the uid and gid options to the line in /etc/fstab, like
this:
/dev/hda1 /win98 vfat uid=1001,gid=100,rw 0 0
(Of course, use your own uid and gid. :-)
Hope this helps!
Scott
Gerald wrote:
>Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 09:23:24 -0500 (EST)
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: linux on laptop mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: vfat Partition in write acces to all users
>
> Hello all,
>
> Even if this is not a laptop specific issue, I would appreciate your
>help on the following point. I have a 1Gb vfat partition that I intended
>to use for sharing files between Linux and Win98. I can access it nicely
>from LINUX, but I cwn write on it only if I a root user. I tried to mount
>it with different options but never succeeded to make it writable by
>standard users. The 'chown joeuser' issued as superuser does not work either
>on files/directory in this partition.
> How can I make this vfat partition writable by standard user?
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Gerald Carrier.
>
