RE: Windows Partition

["Steve Cutler" <hellama earthlink net>]

First off what kind of file system is it?  If its NTFS you really shouldn't
try to mount it because the Linux drivers for that FS are experimental, and
will most likely cause corruption (I know this from experience).  If it is
vfat, what does /etc/fstab have in it? Also you should know that vfat
doesn't really support the Read, Write, eXecute(RWX) permissions that Linux
does so when it is mounted the only user that has RWX permissions to that
file system is the user who mounted it (usually root).  In my /etc/fstab
file I have this line for my windows partition.

/dev/hdb1		/windows/C		vfat  	noauto,user,rw		0 0

"noauto" makes it so that it doesn't automatically mount at boot time,
"user" makes it so that any regular user can mount this fs, and "rw" makes
it read write.

If you mount it as a regular user then that user as well as root will have
read/write permissions for that partition.


-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-install-list-admin redhat com
[mailto:redhat-install-list-admin redhat com]On Behalf Of Craig A. Adams
Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2002 7:07 PM
To: RedHat Install Mailing List
Subject: Windows Partition


Hi All,

Please could someone tell me how to allow users on RH7.3 access the
"Windows" partition with write permissions.

It is mounted as /mnt/win

Thanks

Craig A.







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