Re: [Freedos-user] Trouble setting up dosemu

2013-05-12 Thread John R. Sowden
I added ,gid=1000 in the fstab umounted re:mounted. now group is root, user is john, but I still cannot write to this fs. On 05/12/2013 06:44 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > Hi! > >> I tried to chown while it was mounted and the response was "operation >> not permitted". that is why I did it umounted.

Re: [Freedos-user] Trouble setting up dosemu

2013-05-12 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! > I tried to chown while it was mounted and the response was "operation > not permitted". that is why I did it umounted. can I incorporate the > -o uid=john into the fstab, as I am not performing a separate mount > command., or should I not mount it all in fstab, but use "unix mount > e

Re: [Freedos-user] Trouble setting up dosemu

2013-05-12 Thread John R. Sowden
I tried to chown while it was mounted and the response was "operation not permitted". that is why I did it umounted. can I incorporate the -o uid=john into the fstab, as I am not performing a separate mount command., or should I not mount it all in fstab, but use "unix mount etc." in my autoe

Re: [Freedos-user] Trouble setting up dosemu

2013-05-12 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! If you mount something to a directory, it shows up there instead of the directory. This is why chown *before* the mount has no effect. You could chown *after* the mount, or use the -o uid=john option for mount. Mount also has many other options, but avoid making things too complex. Eric > I

[Freedos-user] Trouble setting up dosemu

2013-05-12 Thread John R. Sowden
I am attempting to mount a fat32 partition (4.xGB) to /mnt/e e is my "e:" drive (in autoexec.bat, I lredir e: linux\fs\mnt\e). I cannot write to it from dos. I found that the directory e is owned by john:john (me) why I have my own group, I don't know. I sudo umount /dev/sda9, then sudo chown joh