But, I used to write to this parition in 8.2 as a regular user, but it gave an 
warning (something I asked here the other day).

On Tuesday 29 Oct 2002 6:32 pm, Anders Lind wrote:
> > Just installed 9 and looks cool. But having some permissions problems. I
> > have a vfat partition that I am not allowed to write too. When trying to
> > chage the permissions to 777 it does not do it, but does not error
> > either?!
> >
> > Is this behaviour expected? I don't know if I am having these troubles
> > because it is vfat? I never used to in 8.2.
>
> If memory serves me right only root has the right to write to a vfat
> partition, it has been like that for me in any dist of Linux I have used. I
> am not sure if any changes in /etc/fstab would help you and if so I have no
> clue what it would be.
>
> Best Regards,
> Anders

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