Guest dams Posted July 5, 2006 Report Share Posted July 5, 2006 Hi I've just installed Mandriva2006, everything's fine, but... I've created a fat32 partition on my hard disk (g:/), it is correctly mounted in linux (sda6), so I can write windows files in it and get them in linux, but I can't write linux files in it.... Please help, I'm a total newbie (and french, so excuse my english...) thanks a lot Dams [Moved from Software - arctic] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted July 5, 2006 Report Share Posted July 5, 2006 This can be related to permissions set for the partition. Please do the following: Open a filebrowser like Konqueror or Nautilus (in KDE, click on "home"), then navigate to the /etc directory on your base filesystem. In the /etc directory, you will find a file, called fstab. open the file and post its contents here, so we can check the permissions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJohn Posted July 6, 2006 Report Share Posted July 6, 2006 I am with Arctic on this one. I think it is definately a permissions problem. The following probably needs to be typed into /fstab (As root by typing in kdesu konqueror in a console and password. Look for /etc/fstab and click on it and it will open in a text editor such as kwrite) umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 instead of anything else that is between the vfat and the two zeros at the end of the line that pertains to the fat32 partition with a single space before and after this inserted text. I hope this helps. John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reiver_Fluffi Posted July 6, 2006 Report Share Posted July 6, 2006 "umask=000" is usually enough for me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted July 6, 2006 Report Share Posted July 6, 2006 "umask=000" is usually enough for me Indeed, and the only option for FAT32 partitions- there are no advanced ownership attributes in that filesystem. For more info, type man:mount at your Konqueror window. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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