Mike....correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't you the guy who's
been telling some folks in this list that their questions aren't
appropriate for this forum and to go ask them in the expert
list? Well I think that your response in this thread (quoted
below) was not appropriate for the newbie list. The remedy here
was very simple and your four rambling paragraphs have simply
served to confuse the issue.
Alan
Mike Corbeil wrote:
>
> Alan Shoemaker wrote:
>
> > Bob....you also need to include umask=0 on that line in
> > /etc/fstab.
>
> Must be a fairly new requirement, or there's a difference in the default
> umask value between RH 5.1 and Mandrake, because I don't need umask=0 to be
> able to write to my dos partitions. I merely set it to noauto,rw and this
> is adequate.
>
> The only reason you'ld need to included umask=0 is because of the
> system-wide default value for it, probably defined in /etc/profile or
> /etc/bashrc. This may also depend on whether you're allowing only root to
> write or make changes to the dos partitions, or also allowing users. I
> don't give users access to my dos partitions, albeit it's a standalone
> system and I'm the only user anyway.
>
> I read somewhere, recently, that umask should be set to 0 in the system-wide
> login scripts, but that's the opinion of one author of documentation. If,
> however, you're going to set umask to 0 for the dos partition(s), then you
> might want to simply set the system-wide value to this anyway, which means
> you wouldn't need to include this in fstab.
>
> You'ld need to do some research through various documents which touch upon
> this subject, before taking my word as gospel.
>
> mike
>
> >
> >
> > Alan
> >
> > Cox Family wrote:
> > >
> > > another stumper for me?
> > >
> > > I just wanted to make a new directory on the DOS partition that I could
> > > put some WP8 files in (because the apostrophe comes out on the printer
> > > as something stupid in Linux right now) and it said I didn't have
> > > permission. I checked the "fstab" and hda1 includes "user" in
> > > permissions. I checked properties by right-clicking on the icon and it
> > > includes user, group and others for both read and write.
> > >
> > > OK, so I made the directory as super-user, gave it "a+rwx" permissions,
> > > and still couldn't save a file in it. Access denied. No permission to
> > > write or what ever....
> > >
> > > Again, what am I missing here?
> > >
> > > Bob
