On Thu, 28 Mar 2002 15:08:51 -0500 Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need read/write access to my windows partition > The relevant line in /etc/fstab is: > /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat user,rw 0 0 > Output from $ mount is: > /dev/hda1 on /mnt/windows type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) > > With windows partition not mounted, $ ll /mnt gives: > drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Mar 22 13:21 windows/ > > After # mount /mnt/windows , $ ll /mnt gives: > drwxr-xr-x 30 root root 16384 Dec 31 1969 windows/ > > I found a thread in archives back in Feb. about this problem, but no > solution, just some interesting "try this". > My system is vanilla 8.2 from clean install. I didn't have this problem with > previous versions on same hardware. > >
just add umask=0 in the 4th field (options) of /etc/fstab for each vfat partition. bye jipe
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