Emilio,
You *CAN* write to a VFAT partitoin from within Linux. That's not
usually the problem. The major problem normally seem to be that root can
write to VFAT partitions, but other "normal" users can't. It's all down to
the manner in which you mount your DOS partitions. You need to specify a
umask=0 on each partition you want to make writable for everyone. If you
want further info then shout up and I'll send you instructions on how to do
it.
For Russell, wanting to write his error messages and log files to
windows partitios, it probably won't be an issue as they'll be written by
system tasks running with root permissions anyway. One question I would
like to ask is why! Any particular reason why you want them written to a
VFAT partition rather than their usual place in /var/log/?
Steve Flynn
IBM MVS Operations Analyst
"Emilio Correa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 29/02/2000 17:39:37
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Emilio Wrote:
Hi, I think you can't write on a vfat mounted partition in linux but you
can try to do it, in one opportunity I couldn't do it.
Good luck
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From: Russell Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [newbie] mount/make/windoz-files?
> Can someone tell me how to mount my windoz partition, and make a
> directory there to use for linux? I would like to direct error
> messages, and log files to windoz from linux. I know this is a really
> newbie ?.
> hda1 windoz 98 fat 32
> hda 2 linux native
> hda3 linux swap
>
> mandrake 6.0 200mmx wd 5.1g hd
>
> tia
> russell
>
>
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