13 Aug
2001
13 Aug
'01
12:37 p.m.
On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Amish Mehta wrote:
In linuxconf...Access local drive..set mask of partition to
Don't use linuxconf.
'000'(zero-zero-zero)(simple zero should also work :-)) which allows everybody write access to partition.
You want to change permissions for the mount point, not the partition. (that's /mnt/windows and not /dev/hda2)
In /etc/fstab, under the options column for your windows partition, put mode=777
I won't tell you more, because I expect you to follow this up with man fstab and man mount.
Philip
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