Ken and John-
Thanks for the feedback. You may be right, John; regardless of how I try
to set the mount, it won't let anybody but root write to it. I certainly
understand the logic of not corrupting the DOS file system, but such a
hard-and-fast prevention seems to short-circuit any benefit of being able
to access the partition at all. It's pretty inconvenient to have to su in
order to copy shared files to my windows partition, but if that's what I
have to do, well I guess that's what I have to do.
- alan
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On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, John Aldrich wrote:
> 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.
>
