Trevor,
I do something similar with a USB disk. I found the following incantation for
/etc/fstab line works for me:
/dev/sda1 /flip2disk vfat
uid=500,codepage=850,umask=0,gid=500,shortname=winnt,iocharset=iso8859-15,conv=auto,check=relaxed,posix
0 0
You will of course, need to change the UID/GID values to match your own
account details. For more details look at the man page for the mount
command.
Hope this helps.
Alan D
On Monday 01 Dec 2003 4:49 pm, Trevor Smith wrote:
I've had limited exposure to unix/linux over the years. I've
installed
FC1 about a million times lately (don't ask) and finally think I've
settled on a configuration with KDE that works quite nicely for me.
I have a VFAT partition that I use with Win2k that I have made
available under linux by adding:
/dev/hda5 /mnt/win2k VFAT default 0 0
to my /etc/fstab file (I'm typing from memory, but you get the picture
if there is a typo above). I can read and write to the drive, no
problem.
However, I downloaded some files .java from the 'net, saved them to my
home directory (/home/trevor) and then tried to drag and drop them from
my linux partition to the aforementioned /mnt/win2k partition. KDE
and/or linux didn't like that.
I logged out and back in as root and tried again and got some more
refusal from KDE. I tried setting all the permissions for the files I
wanted to move and dragged again and more or less got what I wanted,
but also got a warning. It was all sort of confusing so, my question:
Is there any particular "trick" to moving files between my win2k and
linux partitions? Should I need to be root to do so? Do permissions
need to be set on a per-file basis? Is the line in my /etc/fstab file
correct?
Thanks.