Soft Link & Fat32 partition

[shane2peru]

Ok, I have 3 partitions on my drive. 1 XP 2. Fat32 (data) 3. FC5. I originally tried to add my fat32 partition mount point to my home directory it was really nice for easy access, however didn't let me write to it. I'm sure there is a way, but I don't know how. Instead I changed the mount point to: /mnt/docs I made sure everyone had read write access to this folder. Now I would like to make a soft link from my /home/shane to /mnt/docs. My fstab looks like this and gives me write permission.

#/dev/hda4               /home/shane/docs        vfat   defaults        0 0
#/dev/hda4               /home/shane/docs       vfat    defaults,gid=500,users,rw,umask=000     0 0
/dev/hda4               /mnt/docs       vfat    defaults,gid=500,users,rw,umask=000     0 0

the commented out ones are the ones I have tried and didn't work.

Shane

[steve1961]

Originally Posted by shane2peru

Ok, I have 3 partitions on my drive. 1 XP 2. Fat32 (data) 3. FC5. I originally tried to add my fat32 partition mount point to my home directory it was really nice for easy access, however didn't let me write to it. I'm sure there is a way, but I don't know how. Instead I changed the mount point to: /mnt/docs I made sure everyone had read write access to this folder. Now I would like to make a soft link from my /home/shane to /mnt/docs. My fstab looks like this and gives me write permission.

#/dev/hda4               /home/shane/docs        vfat   defaults        0 0
#/dev/hda4               /home/shane/docs       vfat    defaults,gid=500,users,rw,umask=000     0 0
/dev/hda4               /mnt/docs       vfat    defaults,gid=500,users,rw,umask=000     0 0

the commented out ones are the ones I have tried and didn't work.

Shane

cd to your home directory and type ln -s /mnt/docs

[shane2peru]

thanks worked great!

Shane