I haven't been able to save from OpenOffice.org writer 1.1.3 to my fat32 Windows partition, whether I'm using the WinXP/2000 .doc format or the Writer built-in .sxw format. I'm using SuSE 9.2 Pro on an A64. Am I just stuck using my Linux Partition (Reiserfs) to save the files? Does 1.1.4 OpenOffice.org fix this?

If you can't save OO files in the fat32 partition AND you can in the reiserFS => you can't save any files in the former. That's (for sure) not an OO issue.

DeekBeek, you should check to make sure the drive is mounted rw and not
read only. It's possible that could be the problem.

Zack

Why does Textmaker for Linux write changes (i.e., save) to the exact same Windows XP/2000 .doc file on my same fat32 partition, without my changing anything? I really don't like using Textmaker, though.

Maybe an invalid file name ???

I finally went to some openoffice forums. I had to put the "exec" option in fstab for openoffice.org writer to save files to fat32. I tried using umask=000 first, without any luck. The line in fstab that works is:

/dev/sda1 /windows/C vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0

The default fstab line was:

dev/sda1 /windows/C vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=utf8 0 0

Now, I'm paranoid that an accidental click on an executable file in the windows fat32 disk might mangle something (is that a risk, now?). Writing to fat32 is an issue with me right now, because I want to use my eraser and sda pgp on my personal files, which are still fat32 windows utils. I know, I should make a Linux crypt file, I'm too lazy, right now.