[NCLUG] RE: can't copy to vfat fs without mcopy

[Ted Anderson]

Here is the result of the mount command:

/dev/hda7 on / type ext2 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw)
/dev/hda6 on /boot type ext2 (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/hda1 on /win98 type vfat (rw)
/dev/hda5 on /fat32 type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
automount(pid763) on /misc type autofs
(rw,fd=5,pgrp=763,minproto=2,maxproto=3)

fstab contents:
LABEL=/                 /                       ext2    defaults       
1 1
LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext2    defaults       
1 2
/dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto    noauto,users   
0 0
none                    /proc                   proc    defaults       
0 0
none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620 
0 0
/dev/hda8               swap                    swap    defaults       
0 0
/dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              iso9660
noauto,users,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/hda1               /win98                  vfat    defaults       
0 0
/dev/hda5               /fat32                  vfat    defaults,users 
0 0


>On Wednesday August 29 2001 12:44pm, you wrote:
>> I'm not sure this newbie question made it to the list legibly.  When I
>> pulled up yesterday's digest my messages were undecipherable (!*?)
>>
>> My hard drive is partitioned to dual-boot RH7.1 and Win98.  There is
>> another partition formatted FAT32.  I'd like to be able to use the Gnome
>> Midnight Commander File Manager to drag/drop files from my Linux
>> directories into either the C: or D: Win98 logical drives, which are
>> mounted in Linux as /win98 and /fat32 respectively.  I get an error
>> *Cannot create target file "blah-blah-blah" Permission denied (13)*
>>whenever I try to do this, whether as root or a regular user.
>> Same thing happens with the floppy drive if it has an IBM format on the
>> diskette.
>>
>> Is the only way to read/write these devices via the
>> DOS-file-system-specific commands such as mmove, mcopy, mmount, etc?

>Could you supply us with the output of the mount command.  (from a terminal 
>type mount and post the output).

>Also your /etc/fstab file might help.

>-- 
>Sean Roberts