Re: Linux to/from Windows

[David Talkington <dtalk prairienet org>]

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ABrady wrote:

>chmod a+wr /drv_c

I don't think I'd recommend that, even if it works.

>Do that before mounting the drive. Some claim to have it working by changing
>the 'defaults' part in the fstab entry to user,rw or something similar. I
>don't dual boot and can't vouch for it. But I know I had trouble with it
>working that way several years ago when I did dual boot.

That's the right way to do it.  Specify a filesystem type of "vfat".
You might also like the "quiet" option, so you don't get lectured
about perms not being preserved (which I know and don't care about on
vfat).

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