[ale] Reading Win98 disk from Linux (Slack 9.1)

[Bob Toxen]

I believe all you need to do is do is "man 8 mount" and read the
section "Mount options for fat", where it mentions the mount options:

     uid=value and gid=value

to cause a different user and group (than root) to be the owner of the file.
The problem is that there is no such data in FAT (or no easy way to map
to Linux).

Bob Toxen (A proud Slackware user!)
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On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 05:53:32PM +0000, zeb wrote:
> Can anyone point me to directions as to how to read a Win98 disk from 
> Slack 9.1??
> 
> I have data files on a FAT32 partition.  They must be there, because 
> that's where the application puts them.  (It's an application that 
> runs only under Win9x.)  I would like to be able to read and 
> manipulate these files from Slack as a user.  I can do it as root but 
> I don't want to do that.  When I try to access these files as user, I 
> get "access denied".  I have changed permissions in the /dev 
> directory, in the /mnt directory, and on the files themselves.   The 
> system is dual boot, Win98se or Slack 9.1
> 
> Thanks, Zeb
> 
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