[Gllug] Discovery Day
Jason Clifford
jason at ukpost.com
Fri Nov 11 10:20:00 UTC 2005
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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