Re: Writing to the Windows partition

Check the options in /etc/fstab. I found that adding the option
",umask=0,users" to the applicable lines made a big difference in RH 9,
Mandrake 9.2, Fedora core 1, and Mepis. I don't know about RH 7.3

-mj-

Bob Holtzman wrote:

> I probably should ask this in a Windows group but I don't think
> they would have a clue.
>
> I can copy files from my Windows partition to my Linux partition
> but not from Linux to windows. I'm dual booting W98SE and RH7.3.
>
> As root with the Windows partition mounted the command and return is:
>
> [root@localhost Calc]# cp filename.sxc /mnt/win/Transfer
>
>
> And it hangs there looking like it's waiting for the rest of the
> command.
>
> The Windows directory is:
>

> drwxr-xr-x  2 root     root   4096 Apr 15 23:05 Transfer

>
> And the Linux file is:
>
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 username username 6373 Jun 27 16:26 filename.sxc
>
> This worked well under W95 but I recently upgraded to W98SE.
> Any pointers wecome. Thanks.
>


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