[Cialug] Suse and Windows XP

[Barry Von Ahsen]

In your options field in fstab, you can also specify the uid to mount as

/dev/hda1 /winnt ntfs uid=myusername,gid=mygroup 0 0

further reading in man mount shows this only works for ntfs, not vfat

-barry


Aaron Korver wrote:
> Ooh! A question I think I can help with. First try unmounting your fat32, 
> change the permissions of the mount point, and then mount it back up again.
> 
> If you want this on a more permanent basis, I believe that you need to 
> change your /etc/fstab file. 
> 
> I think that if you add a rw under the fs-options that the device will be 
> mounted with read write permissions at startup. Please correct me if I'm 
> wrong on this.
> 
> device -	mount -	type -	fs-options -	freq/passno
> /dev/hda6	/stuff	vfat	defaults	0 0
> 
> 
> Aaron Korver
> 
> On 6/28/05, Dan Hockey <icepuck2k at mchsi.com> wrote:
> 
>>Jim Asbille wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I posted this before but the answer I received indicated that I didn't
>>>properly describe the problem.
>>>
>>>I used to have my computer setup with Windows 2k and Suse 9.0. From Suse 
>>
>>I
>>
>>>could Read and Write to and from the Win2k partition. This was setup 
>>
>>during
>>
>>>install by Suse. When I got Suse 9.3 I decided to wipe out the box, 
>>
>>install
>>
>>>a new hard drive (much bigger) and break down and install Windows XP Pro 
>>
>>with
>>
>>>a FAT32 partition. Now I can read from the Windows partition when in Suse
>>>9.3 but I can't write to it. I have tried to change the owner of Windows
>>>which worked but it doesn't change permissions for C:. Does anyone know 
>>
>>how
>>
>>>to fix this?
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Have you tried it while being root? being that you used fat32 you
>>shoudn't(in theory) have any problems with fat32.When I had XP/MDK9.2 I
>>could read/write to windows with no problem, now with my Xp/MDK10.1
>>setup, I can read the ntfs and fat32 partitons but I have to be root in
>>order to write. Now that I think about It, this may be something to do
>>with permissions that I know nothing about.
>>-dh
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