mount fstab

[jim lawrence]

On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 11:55:35 -0500, jim lawrence <fedorajim at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 22:13:46 +0530, Rahul Sundaram
> <rahulsundaram at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 11:17:51 -0500, jim lawrence <fedorajim at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > hi all,I just want to make sure this line that I put into fsab is
> > > going to allow me to automount my  "D drive" and allow me to read &
> > > write to that drive without being root.
> >
> > looks good enough to me
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Rahul Sundaram
> >
> i just rebooted   and the permissions on the mounted drive are as follows
> 
> drwxr-xr-x  9 root root 4096 Dec 31  1969 windrive
> 
> how can i change them to  me ??
> the drive is a fat32 partition  just to let you know

-- i keep getting a permission denied  

drwxr-xr-x  9 root root 4096 Dec 31  1969 windrive
drwxrwxr-x  4 jim  jim  4096 Jan 19 23:44 wireless
[root at JimsNotebook jim]# chown jim windrive
chown: changing ownership of `windrive': Operation not permitted
[root at JimsNotebook jim]#


Jim Lawrence
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