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

[Nick Horvath]

If you plan on using linux often enough you might want to consider
formatting it ext3 (and therefore gaining journal support) and
installing some windows ext2/3 drivers. The ones I know of can be
found here:
ext2 File System Driver: http://ext2fsd.sourceforge.net/index.htm
ext2ifs (read only): http://www.ext2fs-anywhere.com/
ext2fs-anywhere (non-free): http://www.ext2fs-anywhere.com/ ($29.95 -
$10 if you are a student/teacher)

As with everyone else's comments, if it's already FAT32 forget what I just said.
-Nick


On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 01:36:17 -0500, Avishay Traeger
<atraeger at cs.sunysb.edu> wrote:
> 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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