Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> Bob....you also need to include umask=0 on that line in
> /etc/fstab.
Must be a fairly new requirement, or there's a difference in the default
umask value between RH 5.1 and Mandrake, because I don't need umask=0 to be
able to write to my dos partitions. I merely set it to noauto,rw and this
is adequate.
The only reason you'ld need to included umask=0 is because of the
system-wide default value for it, probably defined in /etc/profile or
/etc/bashrc. This may also depend on whether you're allowing only root to
write or make changes to the dos partitions, or also allowing users. I
don't give users access to my dos partitions, albeit it's a standalone
system and I'm the only user anyway.
I read somewhere, recently, that umask should be set to 0 in the system-wide
login scripts, but that's the opinion of one author of documentation. If,
however, you're going to set umask to 0 for the dos partition(s), then you
might want to simply set the system-wide value to this anyway, which means
you wouldn't need to include this in fstab.
You'ld need to do some research through various documents which touch upon
this subject, before taking my word as gospel.
mike
>
>
> Alan
>
> 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....
> >
> > Again, what am I missing here?
> >
> > Bob
