Thanks David, Volker, Dave What is a *ix filesystem?
No its not a USB device, it's a FAT partition on the machine's hard drive that needs rw access on Ubuntu and XP, hence FAT system. I'm just getting read access all the time. Dave suggested a line in /etc/fstab: /dev/hda6 /mnt/hda6 ext3 auto,users,exec 0 0 (substituting relevant partition & file system of course). but I couldn't get a /mnt/FAT entry to work at all, however at least it mounts and reads OK with a /media/FAT line, suggested by David. Distro mounts USB devices flawlessly (well it seems all right to me). Woodsey On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 10:34 +1300, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > I don't think Linux permissions work on a FAT partition anyway, so > > this is all irrelevant. > > Correct! FAT + VFAT have no notion of *ix permissions, but to make it a > *ix filesystem, permissions have to be invented. The parameters in fstab > (or with the mount command) supply the permissions which are used when > the filesystem is mounted. You can specify permissions for files and > directories seperately. Other types than files and directories can not > exist.
