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Name: sizzzzlerz
Date: February 25, 2004 at 17:59:17 Pacific
OS: RH9
CPU/Ram: P3/256
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I have a XP/Linux RH9 dual-boot PC. I want to mount my windows C and D drives so that I can access the directories read-write from a normal user account.

As root, I create a mount point /mnt/dwind and changes its permissions to 777. I then type

mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /mnt/dwind

As root, I can read/write the directory. As a regular user, its read-only. While the drive is mounted, I also noticed the permissions have reverted to 755. Attempting to change back to 777 as root, gives me an error message saying the operation is not permitted.

Am I doing something wrong or is it just not possible to mount the drive read-write?




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Name: 3Dave
Date: February 26, 2004 at 05:20:18 Pacific
Reply:

Use the umask=0 switch when mounting or in your /etc/fstab file, eg:
# mount -t vfat -o umask=0 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/dwind
or the line in fstab:
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/dwind vfat umask=0 0 0


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Response Number 2
Name: sizzzzlerz
Date: February 26, 2004 at 18:59:55 Pacific
Reply:

It works! Thanks.


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