On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 21:01, jurvis lasalle wrote: > On Wednesday, Nov 19, 2003, at 15:18 America/New_York, Roger Beever > wrote: > > > On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 08:43, Steve Phillips wrote: > >>> On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 05:50, Pete Nesbitt wrote: > >>> Right here goes. > >>> Since I had not made an addition to fstab yet I tried the idea above > >>> without the unmount line and the ls -l was as above (the mount line > >>> had > >>> to be mount "/dev/hdb3 /win" to work of course. > >>> So I thought try again as listed and guess what for some reason RHRL > >>> -3 > >>> WS has no unmount. > >>> whereis mount gives locations but whereis unmount gives none. > >>> What do I do now ? > >>> Roger > >> > >> try umount instead :-) > >> > >> -- > >> Steve. > > Thanks (the number of times I read in the missing n even in the "man > > mount") > > And the bad news the ls-l of the vfat partition still looks like this. > > rwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 18 01:13 recycled > > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 18 01:13 System Volume > > Information > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 17 21:19 test > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 68 Nov 18 01:21 test2.txt > > I'm trying to make the changes in a terminal window with an SU to root. > > What next ? > > Just tried from a text console as well same result. > > Roger > > > > I think the real problem is not the permissions on the mount point, but > rather the options you pass to the mount command. files and > directories on vfat partitions have no owners or permissions and thus > get assigned to mounter by the OS at mount time. Because you can only > mount them as root currently, all the files will belong to root. You > need to investigate the -o option to mount (by reading the man page for > mount) and in particular the "-o user" option. Your personal needs may > vary and you might rather use the users option instead. Just read the > man page :-) > > Jurvis LaSalle We did it thanks to those who assisted. "mount -t vfat -o umask=000 /dev/hdb3 /win" Worked for me. first I caught myself doing the test still as root ;-) And was then about to start banging my head against the wall when, after doing the first tests with vim which worked fine, openOffice still failed to save. So I tried in the /win/test dir which worked and it then worked in the /win as well so I guess it just needed to catch up. Thanks again. But you can be sure "I'll be back" Regards Roger (with lots still to learn). -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
