Thanks, everyone, for the help. I did finally get write access with this
configuration. I thought I could umount and then mount the disk, but that
didn't work. However, when I rebooted, everything was fine.
Thanks again.
On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, you wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion. I edited fstab and added "user". Didn't work. I
> finally ended up with this fstab:
>
> /dev/hda8 / ext2 defaults 1 1
> /dev/hda9 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
> /dev/hdb1 /misc vfat exec,dev,suid,rw,uid=0,gid=100,umask=006 0 0
> /dev/hda10 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2
> /dev/hda11 /var ext2 defaults 1 2
> /dev/hda12 swap swap defaults 0 0
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto
>sync,user,noauto,nosuid,nodev,unhide 0 0
> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto
>user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0 0
> none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> none /dev/pts devpts mode=0622 0 0
>
> Now, when I do a ls -ld /misc I get:
> drwxrwx--x 7 root users 16384 Dec 31 1969 /misc
>
> However, I still can't write to it. And look at that date! I don't understand
> where that came from, either.
>
> On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, you wrote:
> > On Tue, 09 Nov 1999, you wrote:
> > > I have a Dos partition on a 2nd hard drive that I would like to access from
> > > Linux or Win98. However, I can't write to it as a user, and I can't change the
> > > file permissions or group as root.
> > >
> > > Any idea what's up?
> > >
> > By default, Linux (or at least RedHat and Mandrake) do not
> > permit users to write to a DOS partition. However, you can
> > change this by adding "user" to the string describing the
> > dos/windows partition. i.e.
> > /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos vfat defaults, user 0 0
>
> > The above is how you'd mount a Win98 partition. Just change
> > the filesystem type to "fat" for a plain MSDOS (pre Win9x)
> > file system. OTOH, you may want to use FAT32 to address
> > that partition/logical drive so that you can save long file
> > names of the type acceptable to Linux and Win98.
> > John
> --
> Be careful what you wish for...you might get it.
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