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hello,
i mounted my FAT32 drives on linux fedora core 3 , i mount them in a folder called /other-drives
i can read them fine from the user account and from the root , but i want to write on them from linux , i cannot do it from the user , as i dont have permission to write , i tried to give this permission to my user account from root but when i check the box in permissions , it dont want to be checked !!! , shouldnt the root be able to do this, also i added my account "user" to both root group and adm group " i thought it may be adminstrator"
but the problem is that write permissions is given tto Owner only which is the root,
any idea how to fix that?
thnx,
a.safwat
 

Re: Permissions

I had the same problem....I'll see what I can find for you.

Try this one...didn't read through everything.
Code:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/debian-linux-help/58112-how-do-i-change-permissions-hard-disk.html?highlight=fat32

You can try to search through linuxforums.org for others aswell.
 

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just use this command chmod -777 and the directory u want to give access to....check man chmod for complete info......
 

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May be you try to log on as su, so you could access and write to some directory.
 

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Did you tried setting permissions to the mount directory (like /mnt/fat32) ? .
Also check if you specified at /etc/fstab with option "user".

You can't set permissions files inside FAT32 drive.

Or are you sure it wasn't an NTFS filesystem ?
 

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hi
you must right click on your icon and choose permisson and then click write to tick it then your program will become writeable.
bye
 

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Try the folloing in the /etc/fstab file
Code:
/dev/hda2       /mnt/C_Drive   vfat    rw        0       2

or like

Code:
/dev/hda2       /mnt/C_Drive   vfat    defaults        0       2
 

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