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Its only my 2nd day using Knoppix 3.2
I managed to mount my Usb Pendrive
But it wont let my write to it, only read
I know i got to set Permissions, im logged on as Root User
Right Click then Propities wont let me save changes, So i guess i must open Shell, but from there i know nothing
Any help much appreciated
The most important thing here is the umask=0000 thing. It lets normal user write files on the usb pendrive. Another thing is to set chmod 777 /mnt/usb.
Originally posted by Jaz808 Ok thanks i see my prob
this was how i mounted it,
/dev/sda1 /mnt/usbdrive
no 777
Hey.
Like many here, I'm a noob. I have both windows and linux installed. I am using Mandrake 9.1.
My problem is that when I previously installed Mandrake along with Windows, I could read and execute the files on my windows through Mandrake (such as playing my mp3s). However, after a fresh install, I can't even view the files on my Windows except when I am in superuser mode. I have tried your mounting technique, but to no avail. Below is my /etc/fstab file:
Originally posted by Skyline The idea was to replace your current /dev/hda1 line in /etc/fstab with this one - you don't issue this on the command line.
Try putting this line in your fstab file in place of the current /dev/hda1 line
Im a newbie myself so maybe this is useless to you, but I just got my ntfs partition going (actually, I got it going, backed it up then formatted it to ext3! So long windows!)
anyhoo, have you tried adding "user" to the fstab line?
user,auto,umask=0222,iocharset=iso8 859-1,ro 0 0
I dont know what umask is - sorry if that means "user"!
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