Mike McCarty wrote:
Gerhard Magnus wrote:
> I'm running FC5 and gnome on a machine dual booting with Windows and
> would like to read from/write to a Windows vfat partition. I've added
> this line to /etc/fstab:
>
> /dev/sdb1 /mnt/win vfat rw,noatime,uid=500,gid=500,user 0 0
>
> Then, also as root:
>
> mkdir /mnt/win
> chmod 777 /mnt/win
I believe that 755 is good enough. The mount point itself does not
need to be writable.
Do the setting of the mount point before the file system is mounted
affect anything? At lease for vfat partitions, the permissions are
changed by the mount command.
[root@mikkel rules.d]# ls -ld /mnt/windows
drwxrwxrwx 26 root root 32768 Dec 31 1969 /mnt/windows/
[root@mikkel rules.d]# umount /mnt/windows
[root@mikkel rules.d]# ls -ld /mnt/windows
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 26 2005 /mnt/windows/
[root@mikkel rules.d]# mount /mnt/windows
[root@mikkel rules.d]# ls -ld /mnt/windows
drwxrwxrwx 26 root root 32768 Dec 31 1969 /mnt/windows/
Mikkel
--
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!