Shared Drive

[matt nicholson]

generally, the fstab entry should be like this: (this is the way I do it)

obviously fill in your device/mount path

/dev/hdc1    /media/shared    vfat      
defaults,user,uid=1000,gid=1000   0   0


that way its user mountable/unmountable, and your user (or, the first 
user ubuntu created other than root) is set as the owner and group on 
the entire partition(otherwise it might be mounted as root, and you 
would have no write access from a regular user)

hopefully that helped.

mat

Timothy A. Holmes wrote:

>Hi Folks -- thanks for all the help on the new laptop its working sweet
>and the programs look awesome 
>
>I have hit one (hopefully final) snag -- I created a shared partition on
>the computer, and formatted it with fat32.
>
>I would like to be able to access it from both Windows XP and from
>Ubuntu, but I cannot remember how it was set up last time.  I know that
>there was a statement in the fstab file, but I don't remember how to
>format the statement or all the proper parameters -- If someone could
>point me to the proper reference documents, I would be most appreciative
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>TIM
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>Timothy A. Holmes
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