[wplug] Win98/Linux data sharing

[Elwin Green]

Thanks - I've tried editing fstab, with no apparent
effect. What do your ownership and permissions for
hda1 look like?

E.

--- redtoade <redtoade at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I too have a dual boot with the Win98 partition
> accessable from Linux.  To get this I added the
> following line to my /etc/fstab
> 
> /dev/hda1               /mnt/win98c             vfat
>  
>  user,exec,nodev,nosuid,rw,noauto,uid=500 0 0
> 
> I would strongly suggest that you 'man fstab' and do
> a
> little light reading first.  Some of what I have in
> there is redundant... 
> 
> Good luck.
> 
> 
> --- Elwin Green <bekitemba2002 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > My primary computer is a dual-boot machine, and
> most
> > of my data rests on a DOS partition, which is
> > shareable over my home network. 
> > 
> > I would like r/w access to this partition under
> > Linux,
> > and don't know how to accomplish that. When I boot
> > to
> > Linux, the partition's owner and group are both
> > listed
> > as "root." Therefore when I try to write to this
> > partition (under my everyday user id), I can't,
> > because I lack permissions. And of course, I don't
> > want to do everyday work as "root".
> > 
> > I tried, as root, to change the permissions with
> > chmod, to no effect. 
> > 
> > What should I do?
> > 
> > Elwin G.
> > 
> > 
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