On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Robert G. Scofield wrote:
> I'm having problems with chown and chgrp. I've just configured
> /etc/fstab so that the Windows partition on this dual boot machine will
> automatically mount when I start Linux. I want to be able to
> efficiently edit documents on the Windows partition with WordPerfect 8
> for Linux. When I try to do this I get a message that says that to edit
> my documents I have to save them under a new name because the Windows
> documents are read only.
Your problems began when you mounted at boot time. MSDOS/VFAT filesystems
do not understand the concept of ownership, so the operating system
simulates it in RAM while the volume is mounted, based on who mounted the
volume. I don't know of a way to have the volume mounted through fstab
while controlling the volume ownership status, but it is pretty easy to
mount it yourself.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live...
DCN:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go...
Work:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing
Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with
/Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...2k
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
