Hi, I just upgraded from Slak 8.1 to Slak 9.0 and I have a small problem. Like the 8.1 Installation I was given a choice to make my Win 98 partition readable from linux. However, this time I can't seem to access it properly from any non-root logins. Root can read and copy from it fine, but from a user account I can only access the top level of the C: drive. Folders, like "My Documents", only register as files and can't be explored any deeper. I noticed that the permissions on /fat-c were set as follows:

drwxr--r--

chmod 766 or 777 or anything, even as root, doesn't affect the permissions at all. I keep a lot of media files on my windows partition and I really like to access it like before with 8.1 from my user account. Any one know how to solve this???

thanks,

Does your fstab file (/etc/fstab) allow users to access the partition?
My fstab entry for my FAT32 partition looks like this:
The "user" argument is what enables my users to read/write to the partition. You should be able to replace it with the name of a specific group. Additionally, ad "noauto" if you don't want the partition mounted on startup. The two 0's don't have any affect on who can access the partition.

Even while I can read/write/create/execute files on my FAT32 partition from Nautilus and Konqueror, applications like OpenOffice.org seem to think the partition is read only. Perhaps access to the partition also depends on what file manager you are using.

Try adding 'umask=000' to the options in /etc/fstab.

my fstab reads:


/dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda3 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda1 /fat-c vfat defaults 1 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0


i tried adding umask=000, but it just produced a bad format message upon reboot, probably put it in the wrong spot. very odd it looked the same way under 8.1

This is mine,

thanks that did it. where is your affero button?

Also, i've been using linux for a year or so and it seems that this is a problem that I should have been able to solve by myself. I have found that my linux knowledge has been accumulating in a sort of haphazard, need to know basis. Is there any site or resource that anyone could reccomend which presents a more comprehensive approach, but that doesn't stop after the basics have been covered. I'm going through the how-tos right now, but I'd like to find something that ties it all together. Thanks, for suggestions.