moving files / permissions?

[Trevor Smith]

I've had limited exposure to unix/linux over the years. I've installed
FC1 about a million times lately (don't ask) and finally think I've
settled on a configuration with KDE that works quite nicely for me.

I have a VFAT partition that I use with Win2k that I have made
available under linux by adding:

/dev/hda5	/mnt/win2k	VFAT	default	0 0

to my /etc/fstab file (I'm typing from memory, but you get the picture
if there is a typo above). I can read and write to the drive, no
problem.

However, I downloaded some files .java from the 'net, saved them to my
home directory (/home/trevor) and then tried to drag and drop them from
my linux partition to the aforementioned /mnt/win2k partition. KDE
and/or linux didn't like that.

I logged out and back in as root and tried again and got some more
refusal from KDE. I tried setting all the permissions for the files I
wanted to move and dragged again and more or less got what I wanted,
but also got a warning. It was all sort of confusing so, my question:

Is there any particular "trick" to moving files between my win2k and
linux partitions? Should I need to be root to do so? Do permissions
need to be set on a per-file basis? Is the line in my /etc/fstab file
correct?

Thanks.


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 Trevor Smith    |    trevor at haligonian.com