From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 24 01:29:06 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 943E537B401 for ; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 01:29:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from archimedes.rsn.bth.se (archimedes.rsn.bth.se [194.47.145.245]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2747343FE9 for ; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 01:29:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from defacto@home.se) Received: from jarl.home.se (as4-3-5.paa.hs.bonet.se [217.215.11.194]) by archimedes.rsn.bth.se (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h3O91PYd021375; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 11:01:25 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from defacto@home.se) Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.0.20030424102411.00baacb8@archimedes.rsn.bth.se> X-Sender: jalle@archimedes.rsn.bth.se X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 10:29:04 +0200 To: marlon corleone , freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org From: Jalle In-Reply-To: <20030424030032.10824.qmail@web21202.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030422190056.539D937B405@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: Re: cant write on my msdos partition :/ X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 08:29:07 -0000 Hey! Again, technical questions belong in freebsd-questions mailing list. You should try to post it there. However (I'm not an expert) but I don't think you can write to a DOS-partition unless you are root, no matter how you mount it... But you should really try posting it to questions... /Jalle At 20:00 2003-04-23 -0700, marlon corleone wrote: >hi all. i have a msdos windows 98 2nd partition, when >im about to save a file to that particular partition, >i received this message: > >The file could not be save please check if you have a >write permission. > >though i set rw in the fstab options, still i cant >able to write in msdos partition, i tried remounting >it by: mount -o rw -t msdos /dev/ad0s1 /win98 > >after that i try to write a file in the 2nd partition >but it wont write, hope anyone had a tip to fix this. >thanks > >this is my fstab file: > > ># Device Mountpoint FStype >Options Dump Pass# >/dev/ad0s2b none swap sw > 0 0 >/dev/ad0s2a / ufs rw > 1 1 >/dev/ad0s2f /tmp ufs rw > 2 2 >/dev/ad0s2g /usr ufs rw > 2 2 >/dev/ad0s2e /var ufs rw > 2 2 >/dev/ad0s1 /win98 msdos rw > 0 0 >/dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 >ro,noauto 0 0 >/dev/acd1c /cdrom1 cd9660 >rw,noauto 0 0 >/dev/fd0 /floppy msdos >rw,noauto 1 1 >proc /proc procfs rw