Re: [Plug] Controlling access to a dos partition

[Hugh Brock <hbrock@ibm.net>]

> "Douglas A. Weber" wrote:
> 
> Hey I need a hand to help me see the obvious.  :-)
> 
> I am running Mandrake linux 6.0 and so far I really like it.  I dual
> boot using lilo into either that or windows98.  I would like to have
> access to the windows partition (drive) from linux. 

Hi Doug --

I'm running SuSE, but I believe this works about the same. You can mount
your windows partitions by making the appropriate entry in /etc/fstab
(see man fstab for more details -- use vfat for type if you want to see
long filenames). You can also set ownership in your /etc/fstab entry.
However, once ownership is set for a windows partition, you can't use
chown or chmod on it because it is (what else) a windows file system
that doesn't understand '70s technology like file permissions. (Somebody
correct me if I'm wrong on this.)

However, as above, you may set the ownership of all the files on a
windows partition either by making an entry in /etc/fstab or by manually
mounting the partition with various options set (again, see man fstab
and man mount for details).

Good luck!

--Hugh

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