[LUGSB] read only file system

[Mark]

It might be helpful for you to post the contents of your '/etc/fstab' 
file to the list.  This file tells the system which paritions to mount 
where at boot-time.  There is an option that would fix this called 'uid' 
that sets permissions when the partition is mounted.  Hopefully looking 
at /etc/fstab will help.

-Mark.

Sarang Lakare wrote:

>Only NTFS write can be a problem since the NTFS write driver is not complete 
>yet. fat, vfat etc. don't have and read/write problems.
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>Your problem seem to be due to mounting. I had the same problem once.. Search 
>on google.. there is an option which mounts the vfat as the user mounting 
>it.. so that the all the files are readable/writable to the user.
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>Sarang
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>On Tuesday 28 January 2003 09:18 pm, Jared wrote:
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>>Greetings,
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>>I could be wrong but I heard that its generally not a good idea to try and
>>write to a vfat partition from linux (or ntfs). It often corrupts your
>>partition and you end up with a whole slew of problems. You can probably
>>write as root at your discretion but thats done at your own risk.
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>>-Jareeedo, Pirate.
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>>Jared E. Halpern
>>SUNY Stony Brook
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: lugsb-admin at fsl.cs.sunysb.edu
>>[mailto:lugsb-admin at fsl.cs.sunysb.edu]On Behalf Of Harlan Crystal
>>Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 7:54 PM
>>To: lugsb at fsl.cs.sunysb.edu
>>Subject: Re: [LUGSB] read only file system
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>>>Are there any ways to get around this or is there a way to change a file
>>>system from being read-only?
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>>You should be able to write to a vfat filesystem -- it probably has to
>>do with the way you mount it.  Is it able to write as root?
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