Files permissions

Achim Lehmkuhl achim at lehmkuhl.org
Wed May 22 20:47:03 BST 2002


Am Mittwoch, 22. Mai 2002 21:18 schrieb CREAFab:
> Hi !
>
> I've got several HDD on my computer. One of them owes Win98 and I'd like to
> access some documents on it. I logged as root and try to change the
> permissions as "write" for "Users" and "Others", but nothing changes after
> validation. What's wrong ?
>
>                            Fabien3D

Hi Fabian!
The FAT file system has no way to set permissions. You have to set the 
permissions in /etc/fstab. Mount the HDD as read/write for the users.
Looking to "man fstab" or better "man mount" (for details about the options) 
helps a lot.
Cheers,
Achim
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