How can you see 98 partition I can't see it even under root?
James Fidell wrote:
> Quoting Hill, Andrew ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> > I am able to copy files across from my windows drives, but I am unable
> > to copy them back. Any idea why?
> > Mandrake 7.0 and Win98.
>
> Without any indication of what error messages etc. you are getting, it's
> only possible to guess. I'd imagine that it's because by default the
> win98 filesystem is mounted by root and as such all files will appear to be
> owned by root. As a normal user you will not then be able to write to the
> windows filesystem.
>
> Probably the best solution to this problem is to create a new group
> whose members will be those userids that can write files to the win98
> paritition. Then mount the win98 partition specifying the new group
> with the "gid" option and a umask option to make the win98 filesystem
> group-writable.
>
> James.
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