cant change permissions on a mounted windows partition
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it mounts fine, but when i log in as a user, i cant write to it. i get an access denied. ls -l /mnt shows that the dir storage has permissions drwxr-wr-w.
i try to chmod 777 /mnt/storage and i get an error saying changing permission is not permitted (0777 requested, 0755 actual)
so i guess my question is, how the heck do i change permissions so i can write to this drive?
yes, i can change permissions to drwxrwxrwx for /mnt/storage before mount, but then i mount with mount -t vfat /dev/hda5 /mnt/storage and it sets the permissions back to drwxr-xr-x
where
"/dev/hda1" is the partition name
"/mnt/Win_C" is your mount point
"vfat" is the partition type
"defaults,gid=501,umask=002" are your options
"0" is I don't remember what (do man fstab to find out)
"0" is the order in which to mount the drive.
in your options "gid" needs to be set to the group # you want to have access to the drive. And the "umask" modifies the permissions (002 will give you 775 permissions)
That should do it, you do have to restart.
I say it mostly works because some folders are my windows partition are still read only but I haven't figured out why.
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