Stephen F. Bosch wrote:
> Cox Family wrote:
> >
> > another stumper for me?
> >
> > I just wanted to make a new directory on the DOS partition that I could
> > put some WP8 files in (because the apostrophe comes out on the printer
> > as something stupid in Linux right now) and it said I didn't have
> > permission. I checked the "fstab" and hda1 includes "user" in
> > permissions. I checked properties by right-clicking on the icon and it
> > includes user, group and others for both read and write.
> >
> > OK, so I made the directory as super-user, gave it "a+rwx" permissions,
> > and still couldn't save a file in it. Access denied. No permission to
> > write or what ever....
>
> With FAT partitions, you have to specify the default umask value in
> order to alter the permissions and make folders writeable.
>
> There's a blurb on this in the FAT portion of the mount man page.
This should be taken care of by simply using one of the gui fs config tools,
such as fsconf or linuxconf, or the drak one. If there isn't a bug in
these, then use one of these tools and then verify the /etc/fstab file to
make sure the settings are correct for the dos drives. You'll only know if
there's a "bug" in these tools after verifying the fstab file. Try these
tools until you find one which is reliable for this task, and if none are,
then edit the fstab file directly.
mike
>
>
> -Stephen-
