I have a drive/partition mapped to /mnt/DOS_hdb6, and it is vfat.
It's purpose is to hold games (windoze games, some of which can
be played with wine).
I want to make it, or at least directories on it, writeable to
users but I cannot do it, which confuses me somewhat.
I log in as root or
The /etc/fstab entry for this drive is probably set to ro (read-only)
and may need to be set to rw (read-write). A RO mount would override
any permissions issues, and would be expressly supposed to do so.
Kevin
At 04:07 PM 10/21/00, you wrote:
I have a drive/partition mapped to
Submitted 21-Oct-00 by Praedor Tempus:
I log in as root or superuser and try to chmod portions of the
drive as writeable to all, but I keep getting "operation not
permitted" messages. Excuse me? As root I can do anything I
want.
You can't change permissions on individual
Praedor Tempus wrote:
I have a drive/partition mapped to /mnt/DOS_hdb6, and it is vfat.
It's purpose is to hold games (windoze games, some of which can
be played with wine).
I log in as root or superuser and try to chmod portions of the
chmod changes permissions for the files but these
Larry Marshall wrote:
Praedor Tempus wrote:
I have a drive/partition mapped to /mnt/DOS_hdb6, and it is vfat.
It's purpose is to hold games (windoze games, some of which can
be played with wine).
I log in as root or superuser and try to chmod portions of the
chmod changes
Submitted 21-Oct-00 by Praedor Tempus:
Reboot? Can you not simply unmount the volume and then mount
it again? I thought that when you remount in this way, the fstab
is read again and that would be that.
Indeed you can :)
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Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541
/dev/hdb6 /mnt/DOS_hdb6 vfat user,exec,umask=0,0,0
That should solve your problem.
Reboot? Can you not simply unmount the volume and then mount
it again? I thought that when you remount in this way, the fstab
is read again and that would be that.
Sure you can unmount the drive and
