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badbunny 02-07-2006 02:51 AM
Write access to windows partitions in kubuntu 5.10
 
Hello,
I recently changed from suse 10.0 to kubuntu 5.10 and everything is groovy. But I can not get write access to my windows partition, mounted at /windows/D. I have tried to sudo chown them, as well as changing the permissions via sudo konqueror, but all I get is the error "could not gain access". Fstab looks like this:

/dev/hda4 /windows/D vfat rw,user 0 0

satinet 02-07-2006 02:58 AM
what happens if you change the 'rw,user' to defaults?

also, you sure this is vfat partition rather than a ntfs persmission.

also check the permissions on /windows/d/ thought i dount that is the problem.

maybe do 'sudo cfdisk /dev/hda' to check what the partition is (and the number).

badbunny 02-07-2006 04:18 AM
It was defaults, didn't work any better. I just tried putting the rw there. The partition is FAT, and is hda4.

aysiu 02-07-2006 09:58 AM
Do this. Go to Applications > Accessories > Terminal and copy and paste these commands:
Code:
sudo umount /windows/D
sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab_backup
sudo nano /etc/fstab
Replace this line:
Code:
/dev/hda4 /windows/D vfat rw,user 0 0
with this line:
Code:
/dev/hda4 /windows/D vfat iocharset=utf8,umask=000 0 0
Then save (control-x), confirm (y), and exit (Enter). Finally, type
Code:
sudo mount -a

badbunny 02-07-2006 01:14 PM
Thank you, Aysiu. That worked like charm. Seems like I need to do a little reading on umask.


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