I used to be able to mount and read/write before,
I think I'll try turning off the autofs. I think
the problem started about the time I got autofs
working to automagically mount my windoze disks
when I wanted to go after something, or exchange
data.
I'll try later and let the list know.
Joe
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Aldrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2000 1:59 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: fstab rw for usr on vfat
>
>
> On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, linda hanigan wrote:
> > I have the following entry in fstab for my zip drive
> > /dev/hdb4 /mnt/zip vfat
> user,noauto 0
> > 0
> > then the user enters
> > mount /dev/hdb4
> > and the zip drive is mounted with the user as the owner. I assume the
> > same format would allow a user to mount hda1 and own it.
> >
> Maybe if you make the line look as follows it'll help:
> /dev/hdb4 /mnt/zip/ vfat user,noauto,rw 0 0
>
> Adding the "rw" seems like it SHOULD permit writing. The
> problem is that Windows/Dos doesn't recognize permissions
> and thus won't accept attempts to write permissions.
>
> One other way around this is to use MTOOLS, which is
> specifically designed to let you write files to a VFAT
> FS w/o problems. Tools like mcopy, mmove, etc.
> John
>
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