Problem Mounting a Windows partition
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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Quoted 1 line · Affan Qureshi
mount -t vfat
/dev/hda6/home/shared
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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
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