Re: Rights on a FAT32 partition. Accesing it from Windows XP and Suse 9.2

From: Andreas Janssen (andreas.janssen_at_bigfoot.com)
Date: 04/07/05 

Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 11:48:07 +0200

Hello

Thomas E. (<Th.Einert@web.de>) wrote:

> I have tried it, as it was described in that link you have posted. The
> same things I have tried several times before. And it did not work.
> Only the root can write into the folder /mnt/test (this was the folder
> in which I mounted the hard disk). If I rightclick on that folder and
> chose properties, then i see the owner is root (as user and as group).
> The owner has rw rights all others have ro rights. Even if I log in as
> root I cannot change that options of this folder.

You need to umount and re-mount the device to apply changes in your
fstab. If that still doesn't work, please post the line from your fatab
for the FAT partition here as well as the command you use to mount it.

best regards
 Andreas Janssen 

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