Linux Help

Hey guys

Im running Mandrake 7.2 (I know its old) anyways. I cant seem to write to a /dev/hdb1 which is mounted at /mnt/windows/ the Premissions are
DXWRX_RX_R (Owner Root) I tried chmod 777 /mnt/windows/ but didnt work so I tried chmod g+w /mnt/windows/ still no go

/dev/hda2/ Is a fat32 partion and I can read and write to that fine.

and doing all this as root

Any Ideas ?

what error message are you getting?

you can't chance permissions of the mount point
when you mount it use the -o root=something option

....

mount -o uid=youruid,gid=yourgid /dev/hdb1 /mnt/windows
then the mounted files are owned by your user

hheh I got it working. I just had to do mount /dev/hdax /mnt/blah/ -t vfat -o user,mask=0


thanks anyways guys

wtf? man linux is confusing

no wonder i only used it for a week, after it took me 3 hours to learn how to install all my drivers, set up the desktop and play music cd's lol

yes it does help to mount the partition with the correct settings for the file system it is.

yeah I did the mount -t vfat /dev/hdx /path/to/mnt