I was initially trying to use ntfs and even root was unable to write to it. =(
-Chuck On 1/12/08, Eberhard Roloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chuck wrote: > > I have a 300g drive with a vfat filesystem (created with mkfs.vfat) > > that I write files (well I want to write files to) to from both > > opensuse 10.3 and windows vista. (dual boot config, this filesystem is > > never mounted to both at once) > > > > However, when booted into opensuse only root can write to the > > filesystem and chmod has no effect. (For example chmod 777 > > /mnt/data01/Documents (the mount point) appears to run successfully > > because $? = 0, however the permissions are not changed) > > > > I did not see anywhere in vista where I could set permissions on the > > directory as you could in XP. > > > > Vista (and XP is the same!!) cannot grant file access permissions to > your drive because FAT does not support it. > > In order to get this for NT4/w2k/XP/Vista/2k03, you will need to use > ntfs instead. > > kind regards > Eberhard > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Chuck Carson - Sr. Software Engineer Galileo Educational Solutions -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
