cant write on my msdos partition :/

Jalle defacto at home.se
Thu Apr 24 01:29:07 PDT 2003


Hey!

Again, technical questions belong in freebsd-questions mailing list. You 
should try to post it there.
However (I'm not an expert) but I don't think you can write to a 
DOS-partition unless you are root, no matter how you mount it... But you 
should really try posting it to questions...

/Jalle

At 20:00 2003-04-23 -0700, marlon corleone wrote:
>hi all. i have a msdos windows 98 2nd partition, when
>im about to save a file to that particular partition,
>i received this message:
>
>The file could not be save please check if you have a
>write permission.
>
>though i set rw in the fstab options, still i cant
>able to write in msdos partition, i tried remounting
>it by:  mount -o rw -t msdos /dev/ad0s1 /win98
>
>after that i try to write a file in the 2nd partition
>but it wont write, hope anyone had a tip to fix this.
>thanks
>
>this is my fstab file:
>
>
># Device                Mountpoint      FStype
>Options         Dump    Pass#
>/dev/ad0s2b             none            swap    sw
>          0       0
>/dev/ad0s2a             /               ufs     rw
>          1       1
>/dev/ad0s2f             /tmp            ufs     rw
>          2       2
>/dev/ad0s2g             /usr            ufs     rw
>          2       2
>/dev/ad0s2e             /var            ufs     rw
>          2       2
>/dev/ad0s1              /win98          msdos   rw
>          0       0
>/dev/acd0c              /cdrom          cd9660
>ro,noauto       0       0
>/dev/acd1c              /cdrom1         cd9660
>rw,noauto       0       0
>/dev/fd0                /floppy         msdos
>rw,noauto       1       1
>proc                    /proc           procfs  rw



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