Yawar wrote : I've set up my /etc/fstab file as usual, so that I can access my Windows C: and D: drives, as shown in the attachment.
I can mount/unmount both these drives and read them. I can also write to the /mnt/c filesystem. But for some reason I can't write to the /mnt/d filesystem. Specifically: $ whoami yawar $ pwd /mnt/d/My Documents $ touch file touch: creating `file': Permission denied $ Can some kind soul tell me what I'm doing wrong? Thanks, Yawar Amin ****************** When you mount a fat partition under linux you mount a file system that doesn't have inbuilt support for the permissions for each file that eg ext2 supports. Because of that you can give extra options when mounting fat partitions with extra options. Those options are shown in the man mount pages under the vfat options section. The relevant bit is this : uid=value and gid=value Set the owner and group of all files. (Default: the uid and gid of the current process.) umask=value Set the umask (the bitmask of the permissions that are not present). The default is the umask of the current process. The value is given in octal. So when you mount a fat file system ALL files will have the same owner,group and permissions ! If you don't want to use the permissions carried over from your current user/process you'd use umask=value, eg umask=777 would give everyone full read/write access. So a changed entry in your fstab might look like this /dev/hda5 /mnt/d vfat noauto,users,umask=777 0 0 if you want everyone to be able to mount it and have full access to it. cheers James __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs