Edit windows files under Linux

[chen li]

Thanks and it works.

Li

--- "Vivek J. Patankar" <list307 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 3/8/06, chen li <chen_li3 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I create a FAT32 partition on my hardware to
> access
> > excel files of Windows XP from Linux FC4. As I
> recall
> > files on this partition are supposed to be read
> and
> > written under Linux FC4(or either way). But what I
> > find is that it can only be read. So what am I
> > supposed to do to make it written from FC4?
> 
> A FAT32 partition when mounted by the command (as
> root)
> # mount -t vfat /dev/hdXX /mnt/mountpoint
> is readable by all but writable only by root.
> 
> For the partition to be writable by all users mount
> is as follows...
> 
> # mount -t vfat -o umask=000 /dev/hdXX
> /mnt/mountpoint
> 
> --
> Regards
> Vivek
> 
> Registered Linux User #374218
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