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Old 01-16-2004, 07:10 AM   #1
wgself
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Getting write access to FAT32


Hi,
I am having a problem writing to my DATA partition which is FAT32. I can read and write to it when booted into Win98 or Win2000 but under RH8 I can only read but not write. Obviously I have some flag set wrong, but I don't know whether it is in Win2000 or Linux. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Glen
 
Old 01-16-2004, 08:48 AM   #2
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if u can mount fat32, root should have write access. if u r root and already cant write fat32, check /etc/fstab file if there s any line about vfat, fat32.

u can try umount your fat32 partion then mount like this.
#umount /mnt/win
#mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/win
1st and 2nd lines : change "/mnt/win" to your mount directory for fat32 partition.
2nd line, also change "/dev/hda1" to your fat32 partition.

if u dont know where your fat32 partition is, u may check partitions with
#fdisk -l /dev/hda
if its fail try /dev/hdb, /dev/hdc .... instead of hda.
u will able to see partions of your disk.
 
  


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