[wplug] vfat partition problem

Paul G Cantalupo lupey+ at pitt.edu
Thu Apr 17 10:00:35 EDT 2003


Hello,

I recently installed a new Slackware9.0 Linux system. As a result, my 2
Windows (vfat) partitions are unreadable by a regular user. On my previous
Slackware8.0 system, I had no problems. Here is output from fstab, fdisk
and mount

fstab
/dev/hda1      /dosc    vfat    defaults  1  1
/dev/hda10      /dosd   vfat    defaults  1  1

fdisk
/dev/hda1   *         1      1786  14346013+   c  Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda10         4761      4864    835348+   b  Win95 FAT32

mount
/dev/hda1 on /dosc type vfat (rw)
/dev/hda10 on /dosd type vfat (rw)


In an effort to figure this out, I unmounted /dosc and /dosd and I deleted
the directories /dosc and /dosd and recreated them. Here is what they look
like

drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Apr 17 09:56 dosc/
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Apr 17 09:56 dosd/

But when I mount /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda10, I get this:

drwxr--r--   17 root     root         8192 Dec 31  1969 dosc/
drwxr--r--    6 root     root         4096 Dec 31  1969 dosd/

Notice that the permissions change from 755 to 744. Why? Is this my
problem? Can anybody suggest what I try next?

Thank you in advance,

Paul




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