kwlam Posted June 20, 2006 Report Share Posted June 20, 2006 I am using the mandriva LE 2005. I have two harddisk. One is windows. I can find the windows in /mnt/windows. I want to change it to that I can view, write and execute as a user. I have tried to do it in root mode but it failed. I have tried in console and write ' chmod 777 /mnt/windows' but it failed too. Can anybody help me? [moved from Installing Mandriva by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aioshin Posted June 20, 2006 Report Share Posted June 20, 2006 what's the filesystem of that windows partition? if its an NTFS, then Mandriva's default access on that is Read only... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwlam Posted June 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 20, 2006 what's the filesystem of that windows partition? if its an NTFS, then Mandriva's default access on that is Read only... It should be vfat as it is windows 98 SE. I can read it but I want to paste some files or folder from the /home directory to /mnt/windows directory but it said that access is denied. How to do it so that I can paste the file from /home directory to the /mnt/windows directory? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted June 20, 2006 Report Share Posted June 20, 2006 Whats the contents of your /etc/fstab for the windows partition? I normally have a umask=0 set in the options which makes sure I can read/write. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted June 20, 2006 Report Share Posted June 20, 2006 Yes ^ the VFAT doesn't support ownership therefore you have to set this in the mount command and the best way is usually adding to the fstab. You can use the mount options uid=value and gid=value Set the owner and group of the root of the file system (default: uid=gid=0, but with option uid or gid without specified value, the uid and gid of the current process are taken). setuid=value and setgid=value Set the owner and group of all files. in the options column of the fstab Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reiver_Fluffi Posted June 20, 2006 Report Share Posted June 20, 2006 You might want to check the permissions on /mnt/windows, sometimes it can cause problems, at least i believe it has for me recently. To change permissions do the following: Unmount the partition # umount /mnt/windows Change permissions # chmod 777 /mnt/windows then mount the partition again (note this command ensures that all drives are mounted as they are detailed in /ect/fstab, but it's quick and easy, and I don't know the exact name for the device you partition is sitting on). # mount -a Whats the contents of your /etc/fstab for the windows partition? I normally have a umask=0 set in the options which makes sure I can read/write. Same here A thought just occured to me, you should be able to set this using the partitioning tool in MCC, have a look at the options. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitchell Posted June 6, 2007 Report Share Posted June 6, 2007 Go to http://easylinux.info/wiki/Mandriva#General_Notes Scroll up to "9 Windows" under the contents section, and it will give you some advice about mounting partitions. Really useful, and understandable. I didn't have any luck with "chmod", but this was of great help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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