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whoa!! wait a minute!! i see it now!!!... it's working now... it seems i got confused... didnt know where to look thats what!!! thanks man!!! u have been a big help...
thanks for that config that u posted...!!!
now im off to other matters on to the world of opensource... ill keep you posted!! more power!!
still can mount ntfs but it doesnt really matter...
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correcting RomanG:
chmod o+w /etc/fstab sets write permission for _other_, not owner (which is actually a bad idea). What you probably meant was chmod u+w, adding w-permission to the user (owning the file). Say 'man chmod' for more specific instructions and specs of chmod.
Originally posted by jonaskoelker correcting RomanG:
chmod o+w /etc/fstab sets write permission for _other_, not owner (which is actually a bad idea). What you probably meant was chmod u+w, adding w-permission to the user (owning the file). Say 'man chmod' for more specific instructions and specs of chmod.
Jonas
Many many thanks for correctingg me. I automatically wrote chmod o+w because was changing permissions to one file at that time, so man chmod - first, then all above...
Thanks to you, jonaskoelker again.
So chmod o-w - take write permissions from others back, then chmod u+w - give write permissions to owner (user) of the file(the root is). Jonas, Am I right?
1. Log into your Linux system.
2. Open up an xterm or konsole. Do this by looking on the startbar and using the "Run Command" or similar option. Try to run xterm or konsole - you should have one (or both) of them on any relatively recent distro.
3. When the window opens and the prompt comes up, type su and press enter.
4. You should now be prompted for your root user password. Type it and press enter.
5. At the following prompt type
mkdir /mnt/win
and press enter.
6. Then type vi /etc/fstab. Press enter.
7. Move the cursor to the bottom of the list and press END.
8. Press A (ignore if it moans about editing a write-only file) and enter.
9. Type
10. Press escape.
11. Type :w! (just like that - colon, w ! and press Enter.
12. Log out of superuser mode in the xterm, close the xterm and reboot.
13. You should now have acces to your FAT32 partition in Linux as /mnt/win
14. NOTE----- As far as I know Linux DOES NOT yet read NTFS partitions. So if you installed XP with NTFS, you're outta luck.
Stefan, how to know if pre-compiled kernel that comes with his distro supports mounting NTFS & FAT?
'modprobe -l' or 'modprobe -c'? And what about if he has no such compiled modules at all or has them built-in into kernel?
Thank you.
Originally posted by RomanG Stefan, how to know if pre-compiled kernel that comes with his distro supports mounting NTFS & FAT?
'modprobe -l' or 'modprobe -c'? And what about if he has no such compiled modules at all or has them built-in into kernel?
Thank you.
Hmm.. very good point. There is no way to know. What I suggested would ONLY work if he had such support compiled into the kernel of course. Thanks for correcting me - I should have mentioned that.
Its one more reason to like RedHat - GO REDHAT!! Such commonly needed stuff (like FAT32 support) seems to always be where you want it - in the kernel, ready to be used.
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