moving files / permissions?

[jason pearl]

 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows  ntfs  umask=0222,uid=sesso,gid=sesso

thats what i wrote ... i havent found out if it worked yet



On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 06:53, Trevor Smith wrote:

> On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 21:23:56 -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> 
> >Trevor Smith wrote:
> >> 
> >> 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
> >
> >'ls -l' should show you that only the root user can write to that disk 
> >given those mount options.  Others have suggested alternatives that may 
> >help you.  If you're not really using "default" (and maybe you're not 
> >since you say you can read and write to the drive...), then you might 
> >have another issue.
> 
> Damn. :-(
> 
> I just went and played with it again and sure enough, user "trevor" can
> not mv a file from his home directory to /mnt/win2k. 
> 
> I logged out, logged in as root, changed the fstab line to say:
> 
> /dev/hda5               /mnt/win2k              vfat    defaults,users 
> 0 0
> 
> I logged out and back in as 'trevor' and this what I got when I tried
> to move a file from the command line:
> 
> [trevor at localhost trevor]$ ls -la EnumerExample.java
> -rw-rw-r--    1 trevor   trevor        647 Dec  2 08:43
> EnumerExample.java
> [trevor at localhost trevor]$ mv EnumerExample.java /mnt/win2k/
> mv: cannot create regular file `/mnt/win2k/EnumerExample.java':
> Permission denied
> [trevor at localhost trevor]$
> 
> So, linux won't give me permission to write to /mnt/win2k.
> 
> What do I set in fstab so that it *will*?
> 
> Bizarrely, dragging and dropping the file while logged in as root
> causes a pop-up error message to be displayed (it says I don't have
> permission) but the file IS moved (but only when logged in as root).
> 
> >One problem you may run in to, which I did, is that Windows may somehow 
> >mark the local user "home directories" as unwritable.  I don't 
> >understand how, but I had a VFAT fs with Win2k where I could write to 
> >any part of the disk except "/Documents and Settings".  No file or 
> >folder under there could be modified by any user under Linux, including 
> >root.
> >
> >You might just need to save your files to some other folder.
> 
> No, I'm trying to copy/mv/write to the root directory on the vfat
> partition.
> 
> Of course, it's a FAT32 partition. Is that the same as "VFAT"? Or might
> I be running into some problem because VFAT != FAT32 ?
> 
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