It was Sat, 21 Jul 2001 12:10:12 -0400 when Ravi Malghan wrote:
>I have the window2000 partition mounted onto my linux in a read write mode. I
>am able
>to write only as the root user. What do I need to do so that a normal user
>can
>also write. I have tried chmod -R 777 /win. When I try to write as a normal
>user I get
>the error: "can't open file for writing" in the vi terminal
In /etc/fstab you need to add "user" to the list of permissions for the drive,
e.g.:
/dev/hde1 /mnt/windows vfat user,exec,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1
0 0
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Paul
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