Re: [expert] Making partition writeable to user

2000-10-21 Thread Larry Marshall
> > /dev/hdb6 /mnt/DOS_hdb6 vfat user,exec,umask=0,0,0 > > > > That should solve your problem. > > Reboot? Can you not simply unmount the volume and then mount > it again? I thought that when you remount in this way, the fstab > is read again and that would be that. Sure you can unmount the d

Re: [expert] Making partition writeable to user

2000-10-21 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 21-Oct-00 by Praedor Tempus: > Reboot? Can you not simply unmount the volume and then mount > it again? I thought that when you remount in this way, the fstab > is read again and that would be that. Indeed you can :) -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[E

Re: [expert] Making partition writeable to user

2000-10-21 Thread Praedor Tempus
Larry Marshall wrote: > > Praedor Tempus wrote: > > > > I have a drive/partition mapped to /mnt/DOS_hdb6, and it is vfat. > > It's purpose is to hold games (windoze games, some of which can > > be played with wine). > > > I log in as root or superuser and try to chmod portions of the > > chmod

Re: [expert] Making partition writeable to user

2000-10-21 Thread Larry Marshall
Praedor Tempus wrote: > > I have a drive/partition mapped to /mnt/DOS_hdb6, and it is vfat. > It's purpose is to hold games (windoze games, some of which can > be played with wine). > I log in as root or superuser and try to chmod portions of the chmod changes permissions for the files but thes

Re: [expert] Making partition writeable to user

2000-10-21 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 21-Oct-00 by Praedor Tempus: > I log in as root or superuser and try to chmod portions of the > drive as writeable to all, but I keep getting "operation not > permitted" messages. Excuse me? As root I can do anything I > want. You can't change permissions on individual files/direct

Re: [expert] Making partition writeable to user

2000-10-21 Thread Kevin R. Bulgrien
The /etc/fstab entry for this drive is probably set to ro (read-only) and may need to be set to rw (read-write). A RO mount would override any permissions issues, and would be expressly supposed to do so. Kevin At 04:07 PM 10/21/00, you wrote: >I have a drive/partition mapped to /mnt/DOS_hdb6

[expert] Making partition writeable to user

2000-10-21 Thread Praedor Tempus
I have a drive/partition mapped to /mnt/DOS_hdb6, and it is vfat. It's purpose is to hold games (windoze games, some of which can be played with wine). I want to make it, or at least directories on it, writeable to users but I cannot do it, which confuses me somewhat. I log in as root or superus