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Greetings all:
I have a dual boot machine with W2K Pro & RH 9 installed, in the same HD
I have a FAT32 shared partition, and I created the following entry in
my fstab:
/dev/hda6 /mnt/w2k vfat defaults 0 0

The problem I'm having is I can see the partition and it's content, but
I can't write to it, not even as root, what I'm doing wrong?

Any suggestion or comment is much appreciated (I'm newbie, so please
bear with me).
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Thanks,
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Ko Fei Pu
mailto:kfpu@yahoo.com

On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 01:23:45 GMT, Ko Fei Pu wrote:
> Greetings all:
> I have a dual boot machine with W2K Pro & RH 9 installed, in the same HD
> I have a FAT32 shared partition, and I created the following entry in
> my fstab:
> /dev/hda6 /mnt/w2k vfat defaults 0 0
>
> The problem I'm having is I can see the partition and it's content, but
> I can't write to it, not even as root, what I'm doing wrong?

try adding a rw in the fs_mntops field
man fstab for more info

I tried to add rw, it didn't work, so I changed to -w (according to the
man, this should work), but none of them worked, any other idea?

Thanks
Ko Fei

Bit Twister wrote:
> On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 01:23:45 GMT, Ko Fei Pu wrote:
>
>>Greetings all:
>>I have a dual boot machine with W2K Pro & RH 9 installed, in the same HD
>> I have a FAT32 shared partition, and I created the following entry in
>>my fstab:
>>/dev/hda6 /mnt/w2k vfat defaults 0 0
>>
>>The problem I'm having is I can see the partition and it's content, but
>>I can't write to it, not even as root, what I'm doing wrong?
>
>
> try adding a rw in the fs_mntops field
> man fstab for more info

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Thanks,
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Ko Fei Pu
mailto:kfpu@yahoo.com

Yes, I did umount/mount, I even rebooted the computer, still it won't
allow me to write to it.

Bit Twister wrote:
> On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 01:48:33 GMT, Ko Fei Pu wrote:
>
>>I tried to add rw, it didn't work, so I changed to -w (according to the
>>man, this should work), but none of them worked, any other idea?
>
>
> Hmmm, you would think read and write would work which is how I have
> my mandrake fstab setup. Did you do a
> umount /mnt/w2k
> mount /mnt/w2k
>
> touch /mnt/w2k/junk.txt
> rm /mnt/w2k/junk.txt

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Thanks,
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Ko Fei Pu
mailto:kfpu@yahoo.com

Here's the /etc/fstab:
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda8 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660
noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto
noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
/dev/hda6 /mnt/w2k vfat defaults 0 0

Here's fdisk -l /dev/hda:
Disk /dev/hda: 30.0 GB, 30020272128 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3649 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 701 5630751 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 702 3648 23671777+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 702 707 48163+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 708 1982 10241406 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda7 1983 3002 8193118+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 3003 3129 1020096 82 Linux swap

TIA

Bit Twister wrote:
> On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 01:56:36 GMT, Ko Fei Pu wrote:
>
>>Yes, I did umount/mount, I even rebooted the computer, still it won't
>>allow me to write to it.
>
>
> Ok, post your /etc/fstab and fdisk -l /dev/hda
>
> Should have worked.
>
>
>>Bit Twister wrote:
>>
>>>On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 01:48:33 GMT, Ko Fei Pu wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>I tried to add rw, it didn't work, so I changed to -w (according to the
>>>>man, this should work), but none of them worked, any other idea?
>>>
>>>
>>>Hmmm, you would think read and write would work which is how I have
>>>my mandrake fstab setup. Did you do a
>>>umount /mnt/w2k
>>>mount /mnt/w2k
>>>
>>>touch /mnt/w2k/junk.txt
>>>rm /mnt/w2k/junk.txt
>>
>
>

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Thanks,
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Ko Fei Pu
mailto:kfpu@yahoo.com

In comp.os.linux.misc Ko Fei Pu <kfpu@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>/dev/hda6 /mnt/w2k vfat defaults 0 0
[...]
> I tried to add rw, it didn't work, so I changed to -w (according to the

Well, don't "try", "do". And yes, it does work. SHow your altered
fstab line.

> man, this should work), but none of them worked, any other idea?

No, man fstab says NOTHING about "-w". That shoudl NOT have worked.

No ideas are necessary. Only diagnosis.

You are probably mistaking your condition.


Peter

In article <Bob5b.132669$K44.121422@edtnps84>,
Ko Fei Pu <kfpu@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have a dual boot machine with W2K Pro & RH 9 installed, in the same HD
> I have a FAT32 shared partition, and I created the following entry in
> my fstab:
> /dev/hda6 /mnt/w2k vfat defaults 0 0

What do these return (when it's not mounted):

mount /mnt/w2k
mount | grep hda6

mount /dev/hda6 /mnt/w2k -t vfat
mount | grep hda6

?

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On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 04:14:50 GMT, Ko Fei Pu wrote:
> cannot write to /mnt/w2k even as root.

> Here's fdisk -l /dev/hda:
> /dev/hda6 708 1982 10241406 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)

> Here's the /etc/fstab:
> /dev/hda6 /mnt/w2k vfat defaults 0 0

Change
/dev/hda6 /mnt/w2k vfat rw,umask=0 0 0

To test change
umount /mnt/w2k
mount /mnt/w2k

touch /mnt/w2k/junk.txt
rm /mnt/w2k/junk.txt

I had different behavior for each one of the commands you mentioned,
here are the output:

[root@localhost mnt]# umount /mnt/w2k
[root@localhost mnt]# ls -l
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 27 04:59 cdrom
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 27 06:23 floppy
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 31 22:49 w2k
[root@localhost mnt]# mount /mnt/w2k
[root@localhost mnt]# mount | grep /mnt/w2k
/dev/hda6 on /mnt/w2k type vfat (rw,umask=0)
[root@localhost mnt]# ls -l
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 27 04:59 cdrom
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 27 06:23 floppy
drwxrwxrwx 9 root root 8192 Dec 31 1969 w2k
[root@localhost mnt]# umount /mnt/w2k
[root@localhost mnt]# ls -l
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 27 04:59 cdrom
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 27 06:23 floppy
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 31 22:49 w2k
[root@localhost mnt]# mount /dev/hda6 /mnt/w2k -t vfat
[root@localhost mnt]# mount|grep hda6
/dev/hda6 on /mnt/w2k type vfat (rw)
[root@localhost mnt]# ls -l
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 27 04:59 cdrom
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 27 06:23 floppy
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 8192 Dec 31 1969 w2k

why when I used mount /mnt/w2k it worked but not when I used the mount
/dev/hda6 /mnt/w2k -t vfat?

Thanks

Hactar wrote:
> In article <Bob5b.132669$K44.121422@edtnps84>,
> Ko Fei Pu <kfpu@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>I have a dual boot machine with W2K Pro & RH 9 installed, in the same HD
>> I have a FAT32 shared partition, and I created the following entry in
>>my fstab:
>>/dev/hda6 /mnt/w2k vfat defaults 0 0
>
>
> What do these return (when it's not mounted):
>
> mount /mnt/w2k
> mount | grep hda6
>
> mount /dev/hda6 /mnt/w2k -t vfat
> mount | grep hda6
>
> ?
>

I had different behavior for each one of the commands you mentioned,
here are the output:

[root@localhost mnt]# umount /mnt/w2k
[root@localhost mnt]# ls -l
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 27 04:59 cdrom
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 27 06:23 floppy
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 31 22:49 w2k
[root@localhost mnt]# mount /mnt/w2k
[root@localhost mnt]# mount | grep /mnt/w2k
/dev/hda6 on /mnt/w2k type vfat (rw,umask=0)
[root@localhost mnt]# ls -l
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 27 04:59 cdrom
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 27 06:23 floppy
drwxrwxrwx 9 root root 8192 Dec 31 1969 w2k
[root@localhost mnt]# umount /mnt/w2k
[root@localhost mnt]# ls -l
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 27 04:59 cdrom
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 27 06:23 floppy
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 31 22:49 w2k
[root@localhost mnt]# mount /dev/hda6 /mnt/w2k -t vfat
[root@localhost mnt]# mount|grep hda6
/dev/hda6 on /mnt/w2k type vfat (rw)
[root@localhost mnt]# ls -l
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 27 04:59 cdrom
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 27 06:23 floppy
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 8192 Dec 31 1969 w2k

why when I used mount /mnt/w2k it worked but not when I used the mount
/dev/hda6 /mnt/w2k -t vfat? Sorry for the dumb question (I'm newbie :-(
), what should I do to change the fstab entry? Right now I have the
following statement, which seems not working:
/dev/hda6 /mnt/w2k vfat defaults 0 0

Thanks

Hactar wrote:
> In article <Bob5b.132669$K44.121422@edtnps84>,
> Ko Fei Pu <kfpu@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>I have a dual boot machine with W2K Pro & RH 9 installed, in the same HD
>> I have a FAT32 shared partition, and I created the following entry in
>>my fstab:
>>/dev/hda6 /mnt/w2k vfat defaults 0 0
>
>
> What do these return (when it's not mounted):
>
> mount /mnt/w2k
> mount | grep hda6
>
> mount /dev/hda6 /mnt/w2k -t vfat
> mount | grep hda6
>
> ?
>