Cant copy files to a fat partition i mount as RW?
 

Hi, this is weird...this worked before...but i wanted to try a beta fedora build, and when i formated that off and reinstalled my core 1 one...and set it up the exactly the way it was when this sorta thing worked (i,e, i could copy files to this partition before)...that it didnt work

this is how my /etc/fstab line goes

/dev/hda6 /mnt/Linux-To-Windows vfat users,owner,rw,umask=000 0 0

is their something i forgot to do?

"Hi, this is weird...this worked before...but i wanted to try a beta fedora build, and when i formated that off and reinstalled my core 1 one...and set it up the exactly the way it was when this sorta thing worked (i,e, i could copy files to this partition before)...that it didnt work"

What command are you using to do the copy? What error message are you getting?

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Its saying its read only, but it sholdnt be...even tried with root account but no dice.

"Error While copying to "/mnt/Linux-To-Window".
The destination disk is read-only."

i wasnt using a command, just opening the icon for the drive on my desktop and dragging to that folder/directory a file.

'"Error While copying to "/mnt/Linux-To-Window".
The destination disk is read-only."'

Take a look at the permissions for /mnt/Linux-To-Windows. Try setting them to 777.

Also look at the line in /etc/fstab for /Linux-To-Windows and make sure that it is mounted with permissions for user access.

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hmm how do you do the permission thing?

"hmm how do you do the permission thing?"

Log in as root. Linux will not let you change permissions on a mount point. So first umount the partition:
umount /mnt/Linux-To-Window

Use the chmod command (see: man chmod). If you want to change the permissions to 777 the command is:
chmod 777 /mnt/Linux-To-Window

Then reboot and you should be OK, assuming that /etc/fstab is set up to allow users to use /mnt/Linux-To-Window.

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TY! Worked perfectly :)