Hi Thanks Steve, Chris,David, Dave and Nick Steve, this probably has been covered before but possibly before my time. Good explanation though.
Well the problem has been solved and I can now read and write to the FAT partition with both OS. Last question: Would fat refer to fat16 and vfat to fat32 by any slim chance? (no pun intended) Cheers - Woodsey On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 22:03 +1300, Steve Holdoway wrote: > Umask = 0222 = disable write access(1). Replace *all* the options with > the word defaults. The umask=0222 is correct for ntfs, where writing is > still lethal. Haven't we been round this loop before, in great detail? > > Steve > > (1) the umask = if the particular bit is set, then disable it... which > is why it's called a mask. fat doesn't have it's own access rights built > in, so you have to pretend with these mount options. There are 4 digits > to the mask. The first one is for special stuff, which is irrelevant to > this email, and the other 3 are the same, but the scope is for the > owner, the group and the world in that order. When set, bit 1 allows > execute, 2 = write, and 3 = read access to a file. In binary, 001 = 1 > decimal, 010 = 2 dec, and 100 = 4 dec. So 0222 = mask off owner write, > group write and world write access. > > Hope this makes sense.
