Ok so i am trying to get permissions to the mount point of my flash drive. As of now i am trying to copy some files into the flash drive from my hard drive using the cp command

I go back and use 'ls -l' and the files that i want are there -- all good

i take the drive out and put in in to an m$ machine and the files are gone

Put the drive back into the mandrake 9.2 machine and the files are also not ther.

So after frustration i said maybe it is due to permisions or some thing - eventhough everything in the console i do is under root. So i use 'chmod 777 /mnt/removable' to change the permissions. the permissions dont change what am i supposed to do now.

I installed Mandrake 9.2 the first time and anytime that i put the drive into the machine a link popped up on my desktop -- now it doesnt happen after trying a different Distro.

When i plugged the drive in the second time i installed MDK it asked if i wanted to configure it -- i said ok and set the mount point as '/mnt/removable/' and it set everything else -- as in the permissions for root only.

WHAT DO I DO!
Please help me

Do you unmount the drive or just yank it out? If you don't unmount the drive it may not get flushed to disk.

well i tried to unmount and it said device busy

but then i yanked it out

You can't unmount it if you are cd'd into the filesystem of the flash drive. Issue a plain "cd" this will take you to your home directory then umount /mnt/removable

First make sure no files on that device are still open,
then "sync" should write your files at once
If there is not something wrong with "supermount" system it should work
Ciao

1. what is 'sync'
2. still cant 'umount' -- "device is busy"

The command
sync
synchronise the whole system, writing on devices what still is in the memory.
Ciao

OK here is my File:/etc/fstab --

/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,sync,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/removable vfat defaults 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0

I want to give every user all permissions (ie 'chmod 777') and i want and icon to come up on the desktop when it is plugged in or atleast mounted from the command line. What do i have to add to the File or how can i do it so that it will do what i want?!

I use MDK9.2

Nevermind i used disk drake then rebooted -- think it fixed all my problems -- atleast we can hope