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Re: Accessing dos partitions
Avraham Hanadari wrote:
>
> Thanks to the nice people who tried to figure out how to access files on
> the dos partitions through Netscape. Eventually I took the direct approach
> and simply keyed file:/dos_1 into the browser address window. This gave me
> a menu of the contents of the partition (once mounted of course), and I
> could select the files I wanted to read.
>
> I still have NOT been able to save onto the dos partition, though. I
> received an attachment in Linux, that I needed in Windows, but in spite of
> many attempts, I could not get the file to stay there. Once again, I am
> missing something here.
>
> Avraham Hanadari
>
By default dos partitions are mounted such as that only
root has write permissions on them. You can save files
there when you're root, OR you could mount the partitions
as your user or group and then you can save using your
regular user.
man mount and look for uid= and gid=.
- Oren
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