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[Sheflug] FAT32 under Linux
Hi Guys,
This is driving me nuts, maybe somebody has a solution.
I've added a new internal IDE 120 gb drive to a dual WinXP/RH8.0 system.
I wanted it to be visible under both so I used Partition Magic 8
under XP to create 2 partitions (1 gb Linux swap, 118 gb FAT32).
Under XP all ok, mounts and everybody can write to it.
Under Linux did: mkfs -t vfat -F32 /dev/hdb5
So far so good, edited fstab as below 1st /data5 line,
mounted it ok, cd /data5, mkdir /paul on it fine, then tried to
chmod a+w paul (as root) and the blasted thing says no
permission! Neither will it let root chown it to belong to paul.
Can't chmod or chown /data5 or any file root writes to it.
And of course paul can't write to it until I manage this so simple job.
(Oddly enough, paul can delete a file he wrote under XP).
Tried various permutations of permissions entry in fstab and
finally got pissed off and went back to XP and Part. Magic and
remade the partition as ext3, back to Linux and redid
mkfs -t ext3 /dev/hdb5 and then back in Linux and finally
had a useable by everybody FS, except now NOT useable
under XP.
This is ridiculous, both /share and /mnt/1394 (firewire external)
are FAT32 and work fine under Linux. I've done something stupid
but don't see it.
Cheers, Jan
lino5:/etc/fstab
===========
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 # /dev/hda5
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 # /dev/hda3
/dev/hda2 /share vfat defaults 1 1
/dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,rw 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu,rw 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/1394 auto noauto,user,sync,exec,rw 0 0
#/dev/hdb5 /data5 vfat defaults,rw 0 0
#/dev/hdb5 /data5 vfat users,sync,exec,dev,suid,rw 0 0
/dev/hdb5 /data5 ext3 defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb6 swap swap defaults 0 0
odin1:/d1a /d1a nfs rw,bg,soft,intr 0 0
...
/etc/mtab
=======
/dev/hda5 / ext3 rw 0 0
none /proc proc rw 0 0
usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw 0 0
/dev/hda3 /boot ext3 rw 0 0
/dev/hda2 /share vfat rw 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
#/dev/hdb5 /data5 vfat rw 0 0 # previously when FAT32
/dev/hdb5 /data5 ext3 rw 0 0
odin1:/d1a /d1a nfs rw,bg,soft,intr,addr=143.167.64.53 0 0
...
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***** Dr Jan White ***************************
* Molecular Biology, Sheffield University *
* Phone: +44 114 222 2741 FAX: 272 8697 *
***** E-Mail: Jan.White [at] sheffield.ac.uk *******
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