On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Alan Dayley wrote:

> - I put line "/dev/hda1   /mnt/win98   vfat   auto,umask=0 0 0" in the
> /etc/fstab file.
> - I issued "mount -a"
> - Now, I cannot write the vfat partition, even as root.
>
> For example, the command "chown -R 766 /mnt/win98" as root yeilds errors:
>
> chmod: changing permissions of `/mnt/win98/config.sys' (requested: 0766,
> actual: 0755): Operation not permitted

vfat does not support per-file user or group ownership. Try using uid= and
gid= in the mount options (set to uid and gid you want for all).

But you say "cannot write". What are your other problems with writing to
the partition?

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/