[102222] in RedHat Linux List
Changing group and ownership on vfat partitions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kent R. Frazier)
Tue Dec 1 22:50:34 1998
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 1998 20:42:33 -0700
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From: "Kent R. Frazier" <kfrazier@NMSU.Edu>
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I'm pretty sure that this question has been asked and answered recently,
but (I know I shouldn't have) I was logged in as root and managed to delete
my entire /home directory including my mail files. Let this serve as an
example to the recent thread on why one shouldn't log in as root.
Anyway, I'm not sure how to obtain recent postings from the archive, so I'm
asking the question again.
I have a stand alone workstation with two HDs. One is Win95 the other Linux
(RH5.1 soon to be 5.2) Linux is configured to only see my "G" drive on
Win95 ( it is /G in Linux, just to keep it simple) and it's file system is
listed as vfat in fstab. I think that is the correct file, I'm doing this
from memory and I'm still a newbie. This partition is used only for data
and I would like to be able to write to it without su-ing to root. I have
tried to change the ownership and group for this without any luck. I have
also tried to mark it as writable to all (chmod a+w /G) again with no
success. Is there something I'm doing wrong, or can this not be changed?
Also, how does one look for recent postings in the archives? The last time
I looked, they only had posting listed from early November.
Thanks again,
Kent
(older and wiser with a new /home) <grin>
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