Re: [newbie] Opening Windows Files

[John Aldrich]

On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, you wrote:
> > mount -t vfat /dev/hdax /mnt/dos (replace hdax with the
> > device where your DOS partition is.)
> 
> It works fine for me, with one exception: the directory to which I mount
> my windows partition is only writeable by root, even if I chmod it after I
> mount the partition. Has anybody experienced that? 
> 
Umm...yeah.... that's for a good reason. :-) If you aren't
careful you can corrupt your DOS file system, at least
that's what I suspect is the reason for disallowing anyone
but "root" to write to the dos partition.