Each day, an issue with my Win/Linux (RH7.1) box comes up. Most days I can
fix them myself with a little research, spit, and some prayer. This issue
I cannot fix up for whatever reason.
I have a 4GB partition on my hard drive, VFAT, which I have shared between
the two OS's; ideally, I'd be able to use this partition to store files
that I can work on either with Word Perfect or Star Office.
For some reason, though, when I am logged in as a non-root user when using
Linux, I cannot affect this partition at all; I can't read files, write
files, or even create directories. I can do all those things as a root user.
The partition is mounted in my Linux OS as U1, pointing at /dev/hda6. It
is listed in fstab as such:
/dev/hda6 u1 vfat defaults,user 0 0
I have tried using CHMOD on both u1 and /dev/hda6 to give all users full
access to this partition; I have tried various permutations of defaults,
users, owner, rw, etc., in /etc/fstab. While logged in as root, I have
even tried setting up a new group, disk, and giving both the root account
and my personal account membership in that group. I have even tried
changing ownership of /u1 from root to my personal account, and was told
that root did not have sufficient privileges.
This is very frustrating.
When using Win2000 on this computer, I normally use Cygwin to access files
on that partition if they're not word processor or graphics files, FWIW.
I'm at a loss here. Anyone got any suggestions?
Sliante,
Richard S. Crawford
http://www.mossroot.com
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