On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Jon Dowd wrote: Change the mount rule in /etc/fstab to /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0 There probably is 'nouser' or something in there, which is what prevents you, as user, from deleting files on the win-partition. Paul >Hello, >(newbie right?) >I'm trying to delete some files in my windows partition (fat16) from an >terminal logged in as SU and I get an error message that /mnt/hda1 is a >read-only file system. I have tried to chmod the file system but am not sure >if this is what I need to do nor the syntax. I have tried >chmod 761 /mnt/hda1 >Can you help me? >Thanks, Jon Dowd > -- Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my drive?? http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.31
