--- Andrew Choong <mail@pdaconsult.co.uk> wrote: > i'm not quite sure whether this is what you're after but i add the > following to my /etc/fstab > > /dev/hda3 /mnt/windows vfat umask=000 I recall having problems writing to my vfat partition. Apparently windows doesn't support user ownership of files so the work around given to me was to make myself a member of a group. Somewhere in the following line there is a magic code or combination that lets me, as a user member of the the vfatuser group, have write permissions to my data drive. /dev/hda5 /mnt/data vfat auto,user,rw,gid=vfatuser,umask=002 0 0 I can't say that I understand the fstab entry but I do know that it works for me. > > i use this for my fat32 partition on my HD, my microdrive and my > memorystick for my clie. > > this means that i can read and write to it as any user, not just > root, > as default from boot up. > > i'm still quite new to linux (been messing around for a year and a > bit > or so) so if this doesn't help, ignore me! > > regards, > > andrew. > > psyche-list-request@redhat.com wrote: > > >Send Psyche-list mailing list submissions to > > psyche-list@redhat.com > > > >To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list > >or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > > psyche-list-request@redhat.com > > > >You can reach the person managing the list at > > psyche-list-admin@redhat.com > > > >When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > >than "Re: Contents of Psyche-list digest..." > > > > > >Today's Topics: > > > > 1. Re: =?koi8-r?Q?=D2=D5=D3=D3=CB=C9=CA?= > =?koi8-r?Q?_=D1=DA=D9=CB?= (Christian Thibodeau) > > 2. Re: Resolution Help (Thomas Dodd) > > 3. Re: flashplayer plugin (Thomas Dodd) > > 4. Re: GTK+2 (Thomas Dodd) > > 5. Re: Where to add own rules in /etc/sysconfig/iptables (Dale > Bewley) > > 6. Re: mounting fat 32 partitions (Taylor, ForrestX) > > 7. Re: Resolution Help (Tony Nugent) > > 8. Re: =?koi8-r?Q?=D2=D5=D3=D3=CB=C9=CA?= > =?koi8-r?Q?_=D1=DA=D9=CB?= (Thom Paine) > > 9. Re: winbind (Tony Nugent) > > 10. Re: mounting fat 32 partitions (Tony Nugent) > > > >--__--__-- > > > >Message: 1 > >Subject: Re: =?koi8-r?Q?=D2=D5=D3=D3=CB=C9=CA?= > =?koi8-r?Q?_=D1=DA=D9=CB?= > >From: Christian Thibodeau <jlcthibo@uumail.gov.bc.ca> > >To: psyche-list@redhat.com > >Date: 30 Oct 2002 14:55:39 -0800 > >Reply-To: psyche-list@redhat.com > > > >On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 14:27, Markku Kolkka wrote: > > > > > >>Viestissä Keskiviikko 30. Lokakuuta 2002 23:28, Mark C kirjoitti: > >> > >> > >>>On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 21:24, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>>Вопрос у меня такой. > >>>> > >>>> > >>(etc...) > >> > >> > >>>Is it only me or has this come out as a complete mess? > >>> > >>> > >>It's you, I see the text as normal Cyrillic text in Kmail. (No, I > don't > >>understand it but it _looks_ like Russian to me) > >> > >> > >> > > > >Just so Mark does not feel alone, I will say that all I see are a > series > >of blank boxes. > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > Psyche-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list ===== MelSeder@yahoo.com "The sooner you make five thousand mistakes, the sooner you will be able to correct them." - Kimon Nicolaides __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
