Paul wrote:
> On Fri, 5 May 2000, Michael A. Kellogg wrote:
>
> >Hi Folks! Gotta a question . . .
> >
> >I really enjoy Mandrake 7.0 a great deal. Because some of my apps are still
> >Windows based, I still have a dos partition on my drive. I can bring it up in
> >LInux but am unable to write to it. Anyone know how I could enable the
> >partition to write? Thanks!
> >Mike
>
> I know that root can write on a DOS partition. DOn't know (yet) how a
> regular user is able to do that.
>
> Paul
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Hey there
It's not that difficult. You have to edit your '/etc/fstab' lines for your
DOS-partitions, so that it holds the argument "uid=50?" - the ? is your ID. It
should look something like mine:
/dev/hda1 /win vfat user,uid=501,exec,conv=binary 0 0
Regards
Mogens Jęger
