[wplug] RH - XP dual boot - write error on VFAT from RH

Mike Griffin mike at dmrnetworks.com
Fri Mar 7 09:06:53 EST 2003


I'm also assuming that you're trying to write to these directories as a 
regular user (not root).  Make sure the permissions on the directories 
are set correctly for your user to write to them.

I.E.  chmod 0777 My\ Documents

Mike


On Friday, March 7, 2003, at 12:45 AM, Andreas Rindler wrote:

> Tim,
> you are right. the issue is to read/write to the VFAT partition.
>
> i tested for root and non-root. there is no difference. there only 
> seems
> to be a difference whether i write to a windows pre-defined folder 
> (like
> My Documents...) or not. and, it varies whether i try to create a 
> folder
> when using the explorer (Konqueror) or whether i try it from within an
> application (let's say i want to save a txt document as a .doc file 
> from
> KWrite. i say save as, try to make a new folder...and it doesn't work)
> andi
>
>
> On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 23:03, Tim Quinlan wrote:
>> I think Andreas meant to read/write to the VFAT partition, not the 
>> NTFS
>> partiton.
>>
>> Andreas, it does seem very strange that you can write to some
>> directories and not otheres.  Are you able to write to anywhere in the
>> VFAT partiton as root?  If so maybe there is something up with the way
>> you are mounting it.
>>
>> On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 17:52, Henry Umansky wrote:
>>> I don't think there is a filesystem driver to read AND write to an 
>>> NTFS
>>> partition yet, just read-only.
>>>
>>
>>
>>> .....just installed Red Hat 8.0 on my IBM Thinkpad,
>>>> dual boot with XP.I made a VFAT partition for data that i wanted to
>>>> access from both Linux and XP...........
>>
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