The permissions on a directory mounted as vfat are normally rwxrwxrwx and this will follow for most of the subdirectories/files. A dos/win directory entry does not hold linux type permissions, only the dos rash attributes. The w may not apply to some windows system files and I know from testing that linux will set the a attribute if it has been cleared under dos/win.
In a terminal 'mount' (ret) will tell you whether the ptn is mounted, make sure it is rw, not ro. 'mount /c' or 'mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /c' should mount it HTH Barry ---------------------- Col wrote: > > That should have worked. Did you umount the partition, edit /etc/fstab, > and then mount > the partition again? Or dare I susgest a reboot so the changes in fstab > take effect on > startup. > > Col. > > >hi, yes i tryed that but it still doesn't allow me to read or write to fat32. > >i think i still need to rebuild my kernal, compile it, then install it. it's > >the install part which i'm unsure about.... > > > >cheers, sam > > > > > > > >>Did you pay particular attention to this particular part? > >>/dev/hda1 /mnt/c vfat defaults,umask=000 0 0 > >> > >>The umask=000 should let the world read/write/execute > >>HTH. > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > >>===== Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] ===== > >>On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 18:01, stm23 wrote: > >> > >> > >>>hi, i successfully mounted my fat32 partition & altered my > >>>/etc/fstab file. > >>> > >>>now i can access the partition, however i can't modify the > >>>permissions & therefore can't read or write to the partition. i > >>>tried to follow the instructions provided in this link, from > >>>robert: > >>>(http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=29285) > >>> > >>> > >>Did you pay particular attention to this particular part? > >> > >> > >> > >>>/dev/hda1 /mnt/c vfat defaults,umask=000 0 0 > >>> > >>> > >>The umask=000 should let the world read/write/execute > >> > >>HTH. > >> > >>hads > >>-- > >>We gave you an atomic bomb, what do you want, mermaids? > >> -- I. I. Rabi to the Atomic Energy Commission > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > >
