[Gllug] Discovery Day

[Jason Clifford]

On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, David Reed wrote:

> I disconnected the two legacy hard drives and decided to install Ubuntu 
> 5.10 for 64 bit on the SATA disk alongside XP. That worked okay, except 
> that I could only read the contents of  the Windows directories, not 
> write to them, which is, apparently, the default arrangement.

In my opinion the right fix to this is to change the /etc/fstab file so 
that options for the line relevant to the windows partition sets a umask 
of 000 like so:

/dev/hda1   /windows  vfat  defaults,umask=000   0 0

This way any user with a login can read and write to the /windows 
partition without problems.

Note that this is less secure than the original settings however Ubuntu is 
supposed to be the desktop distro and really should deal with this in a 
like manner.

Just so you know the Ubuntu people are going to fix this in the next 
release although they've not yet decided upon how they will do so.

Jason Clifford
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