here is a copy of my /etc/fstab file /dev/hde1 / ext2 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hde6 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom2 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hde7 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hde5 swap swap defaults 0 0 as you can see I have isolated the entry for the windows drive. Using this line I have no problems reading or writing to this drive. you might try adding a similar line to your fstab file. I am no expert so you may have other problems I do not know about but lets hope it works. Rob On Saturday 12 January 2002 13:11, you wrote: > I have an extra ide harddrive which needs to be shared between windows and > linux. It's formated using fat cause windows blows and won't read anything > else. I can read from this drive just fine, but my question is, is there > anyway to mount this drive (/dev/hdd1) on boot with permissions so everyone > in linux can write to it? I hate having to switch to root to write to this > drive. I know that the reason this is done is for security (so you don't > accidently have one of your linux users delete your whole windows drive :), > but windows isn't on this drive. any ideas? > > mark
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