writing to Windows partition

[Dick Brown]

Thanks for your help.  I knew it had to be something simple.  :)

Dick

Scott Talbot wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 18:05, Rick Chen wrote:
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>>On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 10:56, Dick Brown wrote:
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>>>As I mentioned in a previous message, I'm running dual boot 
>>>WinXP/Fedora.  To enable the easy access to certain data files from both 
>>>OS's, I've set up a vfat partition.  My problem is that everything on 
>>>this partition has "root" as both owner and group, and only root has 
>>>write access, so I have to jump through hoops to edit any file there 
>>>while in Linux.
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>>>I've tried changing permissions, as well as user and group ownership, 
>>>but to no avail.  I've looked in /etc/inittab and everything looks 
>>>normal (i.e., default).  I'm sure there must be an easy way to do this, 
>>>but I'm still too new to Linux to know what it might be.  Any help would 
>>>be appreciated.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Dick
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>>edit your your /etc/fstab
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>>/dev/hda8     /mnt/wind           vfat    user,uid=500,gid=500    0
>> 0
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>>note. change /dev/hda8 to match your windows partition
>>this will auto mount the windows partition on startup and permit user to
>>write to it.
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>	This will work O.K. but if you add another user (s)he won't have access 
>to these files.  Try this instead:
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>(From /etc/fstab)
>/dev/hda5      /mnt/media       vfat    noauto,owner,users      0 0
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>the important item is <users> man says that this allows anyone to mount
>the FS. Just be sure to chmod your mountpoint to the appropriate
>permissions.
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>Scott
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