Accessing Win98 partition

[Rodney Kanno]

Hi Warren,

Yes I could read the fat32 partition. I found out what the problem was. I 
guess for some reason, during the update, the fstab file got overwritten, so 
instead of being like this:

/dev/hdb1 /mnt/win_c2 vfat user,exec,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 
0 0

it was like this:

/dev/hdb1 /mnt/win_c2 vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0

is this okay? I mean I can write to the drive now, but is the the "correct" 
way it is supposed to be set up?

Thanks,
Rodney


On Tuesday 02 October 2001 02:36 am, you wrote:
> 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
>
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