Re: Can't read Win95 (vfat) partitions

[Ric Tibbetts <tibbetts oz net>]

Wow.. Thanks for the follow up!
But.. Still no luck. 
Here's what I did tonight:

	umount /Win95		(make sure it's not mounted)
	chmod 777 /Win95	(may as well be sure!)
	chown root.users /Win95

So an ls of it looks like this (at this point):

	drwxrwxrwx   2 root     users        1024 Nov 23 02:45 /Win95

	Looks good so far, So now I go for the mount:

mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /Win95 -o user,rw

	Now an ls of it looks like this:

	drwxr-xr-x  20 root     root        16384 Dec 31  1969 Win95

Notice the change in permissions, and ownership. It does that every
time. Now with it mounted, I can't do a chmod, or a chown on it. I can
read from it, and execute from it, but that's it!

I checked the device (/dev/hda1), and it looks normal. So that's not
it....   

	Any thoughts? I know that there HAS to be a way to do this! It really
shouldn't be this hard.. :)
	Any help is greatly appreciated!!

			Thanks !

	
menion wrote:
> 
> OK, you tried the mount line?  Now did you change the permissions on the
> mount point?  I would change them to 666. (chmod 666 [/mntpoint]), and
> (chown root:users [/mntpoint])
> 
> This might help =).  If you need anything else, feel free.
> 
> js
> 
> Ric Tibbetts wrote:
> >
> > Sounded like a good sugestion.. Tried it.. to no avail. I still can't
> > write to it.
> >
> >                 <grief>
> >
> > menion wrote:
> > >
> > > I too have had this problem, and what I had to do was add some
> > > permissions to the
> > > mount statement.
> > >
> > > 'mount -t vfat /dev/hdXX /wherever -o user,rw'
> > >                                       ^^^^
> > >
> > > in your fstab:
> > >
> > > ...<snip>...
> > > /dev/hdXX               /wherever                    vfat
> > > defaults,user,rw 0 0
> > > ...<snip>...
> > >
> > > I don't think you ness. need defaults, but it [i belive] adds like
> > > 'noexec,nosuid'.  I really have no idea what they do, and, were I
> > > motivated at this point I just see what man said, however, it runs =).
> > >
> > > js
> > >
> > > !!!! ->>>  WARNING: Just remember that there are NO FILE-LEVEL
> > > permissions for the drive, so if 1 user has rw, then ALL have rw.
> > > (Filtered at the mount-point only),
> > >
> > > Ric Tibbetts wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi all;
> > > >         I have a problem that's been plagueing me for a long time.
> > > >         When I first set this box up, it was as a dual boot, between Win95, and
> > > > Linux. All of that works great, and I've since added ethernet
> > > > capability, and other PC's, and samba, and ip-masq'ing, and a firewall,
> > > > etc. All is working great! (ok, got some heartburn out of the ethernet,
> > > > the linux box refused to rec. 3com 3c509..Long story, changed to 3c905
> > > > (pci), and problem went away).
> > > >         Anyway, When I boot the system, I mount the Win95 disk as a vfat
> > > > filesystem. I can cd into it, and look around, and read al the files
> > > > without problem. The problem is: I can't write to the silly thing as a
> > > > normal user. Only root has the ability to write in there.
> > > >         Ok.. Before everybody says it:  YES, I tried chmod 777 to the
> > > > directory, but it won't take.
> > > >         I need to be able to write to this directory structure to support the
> > > > PC side of this installation (the networked in PC's).
> > > >         Has anyone else been through this can offer some help? I'm sure it's
> > > > something simple that I'm missing, but it's an important simple!
> > > >
> > > >                 Thanks in advance!!!
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >                         Ric
> > > >
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