cannot save kword file

Drone4four · 04-18-2007, 08:49 AM

I am trying to save a kword document to my new fat32 directory. I get this error message:

Code:

Could not save /home/fat/dox/Documents/politics - global/my coming out party - hawkish humanism/website/Amster (2003) Globalization and its Discontents.odt
Reason: Could not create the file for saving

So I figured I'd make the dir read and writeable for all users on my system by using:

Code:

bash-3.1# chmod       
c1/         c2/         drone4four/ fat/        ftp/        
bash-3.1# chmod a=rw fat

No luck. What is that Kword message trying to tell me?

erklaerbaer · 04-18-2007, 09:50 AM

what is the output of mount and ls -l /home ?

can you 'touch' a file ?

Drone4four · 04-18-2007, 11:09 AM

I can open files from within the fat directory just fine. I'll input your command, erklaerbaer later today.

Hern_28 · 04-19-2007, 08:34 AM

I had a similar problem. when i booted to the command prompt my permissions were correct (init 3). but when i booted to KDE (init 4)for some reason KDE does not always use the same permissions i set at the command prompt. i had to right click on the file and modify its properties from inside KDE and set it to allow all to read and write.
Good Luck

Drone4four · 05-14-2007, 10:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by erklaerbaer

what is the output of mount and ls -l /home ?

can you 'touch' a file ?

Here it is:

Code:

bash-3.1$ ls -l /home
total 45
dr-x------  1 root       root  12288 2007-05-14 13:53 c
drwx--x--x 10 drone4four users   560 2007-05-14 19:40 drone4four
drwxr-xr-x 11 root       root  32768 1969-12-31 19:00 fat
drwxr-xr-x  2 root       root     48 2006-08-08 07:03 ftp

Drone4four · 05-14-2007, 11:15 PM

For the record:

Code:

bash-3.1$ mount
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw,devgid=10,devmode=0666)
/dev/sda2 on /home/c type ntfs (ro)
/dev/sda7 on /home/fat type vfat (rw)
bash-3.1$

here is my fstab too:

Code:

/dev/sda6        swap             swap        defaults         0   0
(IN USE)         /                            defaults         1   1
/dev/sda2        /home/c          ntfs        ro               1   0
/dev/sda7        /home/fat        vfat        defaults         1   0
/dev/cdrom       /mnt/cdrom       auto        noauto,owner,ro  0   0
/dev/fd0         /mnt/floppy      auto        noauto,owner     0   0
devpts           /dev/pts         devpts      gid=5,mode=620   0   0
proc             /proc            proc        defaults         0   0

Drone4four · 05-14-2007, 11:26 PM

thrice' and rob0 on FreeNode suggested I change my fstabd to this:

Code:

/dev/sda6        swap             swap        defaults         0   0
(IN USE)         /                            defaults         1   1
/dev/sda2        /home/c          ntfs        ro               1   0
/dev/sda7        /home/fat        vfat        defaults,umask=0002,gid=100   
0   0
0
/dev/cdrom       /mnt/cdrom       auto        noauto,owner,ro  0   0
/dev/fd0         /mnt/floppy      auto        noauto,owner     0   0
devpts           /dev/pts         devpts      gid=5,mode=620   0   0
proc             /proc            proc        defaults         0   0

Alien_Hominid · 05-15-2007, 03:15 AM

Does it work with root?