Ken Wilson wrote:
Try playing with the permissions for your mount point, in particular the
This wouldn't do it--in particular, it wouldn't let me set the
permissions I wanted (namely 777) on the directory. What I found,
courtesy of the archives (thanks Axalon!), was to add "uid=" or
] Mount hd on boot
Ken Wilson wrote:
When you set the options for your vfat partitions don't use
'default'
but add each one you need manually. Using 'rw' will allow
you to both
read and write to a vfat partition.
That doesn't do it. It mounts the drive in read-write
mode, which
Hi,
I managed to work around the mounting/read-write/permission problem, and you
may want to hear how I did. But first, thanks to John Aldrich, Fred PLE, Dan
Brown and Ken Wilson, who helped me a lot, and to those who may have written
back but I haven't got the message yet, since the list
Certainly. Do a "man fstab" at a shell prompt to get full details, but
the file /etc/fstab is read on boot time to configure who and how
everything in the system is automatically booted.
Some examples from my own below:
/dev/hda5 / ext2defaults1 1
On sáb, 11 set 1999, you wrote:
On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Hello all,
Every time I boot I have to tell Linux to mount my secondary master, a MS-Dos
disk. I believe there is a way to do that automatically, either in one of the
initialization files or in an item on the desktop
On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, you wrote:
However, whenever I try to copy anything into my /mnt/disk Linux says "Could
not write file. Perhaps access denied." I've checked my permission tab under
KDE for /mnt/disk and everything is fine, and I can read the drive as well.
YeahI think Linux is
John Aldrich wrote:
YeahI think Linux is trying to protect you from yourselfit
doesn't like to let anyone other than "root" write to a non-ext2
drive
I don't think that's it exactly--it's more a matter that the FAT
filesystem doesn't have any support for permissions, and
