[KLUG Members] FAT32_Partition_Question

[Eric Beversluis]

On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 20:47 -0400, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> I've got a FAT32 partition on my dual-boot system (Fedora Core 4 and Win
> XP). I've got a couple of .pdf documents that I've saved to it from
> Linux, but when I go to Windows, I can't see them. I thought it was
> possible to have documents available to both systems by using a FAT32
> partition. Files I have saved from the Windows side are available on the
> Linux side. Everything (including the stuff saved from Windows side)
> seems to have 755 permissions and be owned by 'eric' and in 'eric'
> group.
> 
> EB

Well I seem to have gotten it working by changing the umask in my fstab
file to 000 and uid=eric and gid=eric.

Now I have another problem: one document (a simple text file from gedit)
won't copy--I get a "Invalid parameter while copying..." message. Anyone
have any ideas?

EB
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