Problem Mounting a Windows partition

Problem Mounting a Windows partition

[Affan Qureshi]

Hi All,
I have RH9 and WinXP on a single hard drive dual-booting peacefully with
GRUB. The problem is when I mount a WinXP FAT32 partition in linux using the
following command:
mount -t vfat /dev/hda6 /home/shared

I am unable to change the permission on that partition's filesystem even
with the root user. By default i get root:root and the user:group. But I am
unable to access it through other user. I have tried chmod and chgrp but
nothing works and I get the error saying unable to perform operation or you
do not have enough priveledges to perform the operation.

I have also created an entry in the /etc/fstab file with defaults for
options and vfat for the filesystem.

Can anyone tell me what the problem is?

Thanks in advance,

Affan



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Re: Problem Mounting a Windows partition

[Brian P. Bilbrey]

On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 06:11, Affan Qureshi wrote:
> mount -t vfat /dev/hda6 /home/shared
 . . .
> Can anyone tell me what the problem is?

You might try with the uid= and gid= options to mount. Type man mount,
then look for the section on "Mount options for fat".

best wishes,

.brian

-- 
Brian P. Bilbrey <bilbrey@orbdesigns.com>
Orb Designs

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Re: Problem Mounting a Windows partition

[beolach]

Here's an excerpt from my fstab for my windows partitions.

Device     Mnt point  FStype Options, see the mount(8) man page
/dev/hda1  /mnt/winc  vfat   defaults,umask=0,utf8,uid=1000,gid=100

--- "Affan Qureshi" <quereshi@etilize.com> wrote:

Hi All,
I have RH9 and WinXP on a single hard drive dual-booting peacefully with
GRUB. The problem is when I mount a WinXP FAT32 partition in linux using the
following command:
mount -t vfat /dev/hda6 /home/shared

I am unable to change the permission on that partition's filesystem even
with the root user. By default i get root:root and the user:group. But I am
unable to access it through other user. I have tried chmod and chgrp but
nothing works and I get the error saying unable to perform operation or you
do not have enough priveledges to perform the operation.

I have also created an entry in the /etc/fstab file with defaults for
options and vfat for the filesystem.

Can anyone tell me what the problem is?

Thanks in advance,

Affan



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