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[PLUG] making windows FAT32 partition writable to all users
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I run into this on every system and always forget the fix.
I have kanotix installed dual-boot with Win98. In the default install,
users are unable to write to the windows partition. Here is fstab. The
windows partition is /dev/hda1. <options> for /windows was formerly
"defaults", I changed it to "rw" and got nowhere:
/etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs devmode=0666 0 0
/dev/hda5 / reiserfs defaults 0 1
/dev/hda1 /windows vfat rw 0 2
/dev/hda6 /home reiserfs defaults 0 2
/dev/hda7 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/dvdrw /media/dvdrw0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdb5 /media/oldroot reiserfs noauto 0 0
/dev/hdb6 /media/oldhome reiserfs noauto 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/usbkey vfat defaults,user,noauto 0 0
/windows is owned by root and its group is root. I tried changing its
group to staff (like /home is) but that didn't work. Here is the root
directory listing:
adler@itchy:/$ ll
total 56
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2624 Dec 21 2005 bin
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 560 Jul 29 2006 boot
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 3580 Feb 27 09:54 dev
drwxr-xr-x 147 root root 8328 Mar 16 23:29 etc
drwxrwsr-x 6 root staff 128 Aug 9 2006 home
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4752 Oct 22 02:05 lib
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 272 Sep 21 09:27 media
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 72 Jan 28 14:30 mnt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 Dec 18 2005 none
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 Sep 8 2005 opt
dr-xr-xr-x 86 root root 0 Feb 25 11:51 proc
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 1040 Mar 16 23:31 root
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 7096 Sep 30 18:36 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 0 Feb 25 11:51 sys
drwxrwxrwt 19 root root 688 Mar 16 23:37 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 384 Aug 13 2006 usr
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 384 Aug 15 2006 var
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jul 29 2006 vmlinuz -> /boot/vmlinuz
drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 32768 Dec 31 1969 windows
root@itchy:/# chgrp staff windows
chgrp: changing group of `windows': Operation not permitted
I know I'm doing something dumb but I'm not in IT and rarely do a new
install so I forget what I need to do here.
Any help appreciated.
Greg
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