From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "John R. Sowden" Subject: Problem setting up Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 05:06:19 -0700 Message-ID: <518F85BB.2020300@americansentry.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=americansentry.net; s=default; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:Subject:To:MIME-Version:From:Date:Message-ID; bh=wmGQ/+Nmd3STYQtyNjskNtR7O5WOE8bCF4YYlkSGfrE=; b=cBAENUE4D3xo67FBaVuoa/vSLdgOKKOZO6j0/NT5bJ8SFcu84bcDo4uwTANkGcnQJs0rJdnehPYNXt9Bae8PVYjk8E6ei9H3M8yztfgDVMXV+8Yn5NzcAEk7oJvAtpCvlgAYAW5ENuocem8wuA6D6n07oiJFClhTCi0mosllyHw=; Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org I am attempting to mount a fat32 partition (4.xGB) to /mnt/e e is my "e:" drive (in autoexec.bat, I lredir e: linux\fs\mnt\e). I cannot write to it from dos. I found that the directory e is owned by john:john (me) why I have my own group, I don't know. I sudo umount /dev/sda9, then sudo chown john:john /mnt/e verify that is now john:john then, . . . I sudo mount /dev/sda9 /mnt/e and look at e with dir and its now root:root help! John