Havin_it Posted September 9, 2004 Report Share Posted September 9, 2004 Hi again, Here's a funny one. My /mnt/win_d is a FAT32 partition for sharing files between my Win and Lin partitions. It's owned by root who has full permissions, but its group and others permissions are both r-x. So I try chmod -v o+rwx /mnt/win_d which outputs mode of `/mnt/win_d' changed to 0757 (rwxr-xrwx) Yet, when I ls -l /mnt, it shows drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 2048 Jan 1 1970 win_d/ Any idea why this is happening? Is it a FAT32 issue? Can I fix it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted September 9, 2004 Report Share Posted September 9, 2004 fstab should control the permissions on it. Look for it in there and for a part that says 'ro' and change that to 'rw'. Also add 'user' in there without the quotes. Using my cdrom entry as an example: /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 Make sure the ro part says rw. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havin_it Posted September 10, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 10, 2004 Okay, thanks for the info. One question: um, what and where is fstab? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted September 10, 2004 Report Share Posted September 10, 2004 Sorry. It's a file in /etc so it is /etc/fstab You have to edit it as root. and you'll need to unmount that partition afterwards and then remount it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havin_it Posted September 10, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 10, 2004 Oh, okay. Is the unmout /remount achieved by a reboot? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted September 10, 2004 Report Share Posted September 10, 2004 That's the easy way. Or you could umount /mnt/win_d as root then mount /dev/hda1 (if that is the name of the device) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havin_it Posted September 11, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 11, 2004 Think it's about hda6 after a couple of reinstalls. Will just reboot I think. Thanks for the help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havin_it Posted September 12, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 12, 2004 Hmm, no change there. The original line was /dev/hda7 /mnt/win_d vfat umask=0022,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0 and I changed it to /dev/hda7 /mnt/win_d vfat umask=0022,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,rw 0 0 Anything else I should add? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted September 12, 2004 Report Share Posted September 12, 2004 change it to /dev/hda7 /mnt/win_d vfat umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,rw 0 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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