[lug] mount question

[Hugh Brown]

fat filesystems don't understand permissions.  so one user and one group
can be associated to the filesystem and that is done at mount time with
the uid and gid options (see man mount)

You will probably need to set up a group for all users wanting to write
to the windows partition.  If you are the only one interested in doing
it and you don't want to become root every time you want to write to the
partition then just set it to your uid and don't worry about the gid.

Hugh


On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 02:50, j davis wrote:
> 
> hi,
> 
> i have a dual boot box...when i boot to linux my windoz partion is mounted 
> via fstab
> however i cant seem to let users other than root write to the windoz 
> partion.
> my entry in fstab looks pretty generic...im usung the dealuts in the 5th 
> field
> i dont know if this is my problem or not...checked the man page and could 
> not figure it out.
> 
> Thanks
> jd
>