Accessing Win98 partition

[Warren Togami]

Can you read files on the fat32 partition?
What does "mount" display?
"cat /proc/mounts"?

This probably isn't related to a possible fix, but why do you need to make a
group when you give the mountpoint 777?  777 means any user can read or
write to that drive.  If you want to lock it down for a certain groups only:

chmod 770 /mnt/mountpoint
chown root.msdos /mnt/mountpoint

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rodney Kanno" <pepe65 at hawaii.rr.com>
To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at list.luau.hi.net>
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 1:39 PM
Subject: [luau] Accessing Win98 partition


> Hi
>
> I upgraded to Mandrake 8.1 (Sweet!) and I cannot write to my windows
> partition anymore. When I was running Mandrake 8.0, no problem. I have
tried
> making a group called "msdos" and gave it permissions "777". I included
the
> msdos group to my user account, but I still cannot write to te partition,
am
> I doing something wrong or missing something here?
>
> thanks,
> Rodney
>