[LUGSB] Need help with drive permissions ...?

[Avishay Traeger]

What file system is on this storage drive?

If it is NTFS, then writing data is not fully supported.  Although you 
can enable write support in your kernel configuration, it is not 
recommended.  You are better off reformatting it as FAT and then you 
should have no problems.

If it is already FAT, then forget what I just said. :)

Avishay

carlos at corepcn.com wrote:
>     Hi guys, this is my first message to the LUGSB-
>      
>     I'm using Fedora Core 3.  I've been using Linux for a while, but I'm
>     still a little green.
>     I have 2 hard drives on my system - 1 exclusively for FC, another
>     for XP.
>     The XP drive is divided into 2 partitions: 1. system and 2. storage
>     (for documents and media).
>     I want to be able to access this storage partition (at bootup) with
>     full permissions as a user.  I have no problem editing fstab or
>     using chmod and chown, but I keep running into read-only problems if
>     I use the drive as /root./  Can I give a /user/ full
>     read-write-execute permissions (or ownership) to a drive that is
>     mounted at startup?  Why can't I set recursive permissions on the
>     subdirectories to a user?
>      
>     Hope that's not too much.  Hope to join you at a meeting soon!
>      
>     -Carlos
> 
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