mark 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?
I can't give you the precise details, but in the fstab (and / or mstab) table (/etc), I think you want to add "users" to the line for this drive. I bet if you look at the mstab or fstab table you will see other drives with this setting. Randy Kramer
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