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varaahan

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From: Chennai , India

Registered: 2006-05-29

Posts: 145

file permissions

By editing /etc/fstab file I could get the fat32 partitions loaded by default but I could not open or write any file in windows partition. As root user I used
"chmod +777 /mnt/win_c " but still the ls -l command gives " -rwxr-xr-x" output only. why?

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MAC!EK

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Registered: 2005-09-27

Posts: 267

Re: file permissions

I use this for windows 98 partition:

/dev/hdb1 /mnt/windoze vfat users,umask=111,dmask=000,iocharset=iso8859-2,codepage=852 0 0

I think smth like this should work. Read the man and check this options.

T-Dawg

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From: Charlotte, NC

Registered: 2005-01-29

Posts: 2,736

Re: file permissions

use umask.
umask=0000  = chmod 0777
umask=0002  = chmod 0775
umask=0020  = chmod 0757
etc, etc.

twiistedkaos

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Registered: 2006-05-20

Posts: 666

Re: file permissions

use umask.
umask=0000  = chmod 0777
umask=0002  = chmod 0775
umask=0020  = chmod 0757
etc, etc.

AS he said, so you will want to change your line to something like this:

/dev/hda1 /mnt/point vfat users,umask=0000,auto,exec 0 0