cant write on my msdos partition :/

[Terry Tyson]

In /etc/sysctl.conf add the line vfs.usermount=1 and see if this does the
trick. If this line is already there just as shown here, I'm out of ideas.
Let me know how it goes.

Terry

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frans-Jan v. Steenbeek [mailto:FST777 at phreaker.net]
> Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 10:01 AM
> To: Terry Tyson
> Subject: RE: cant write on my msdos partition :/
>
>
>
> I know this all, but still I can't get my floppy-drives mounted as user...
>
> I now mount these drives using portoseguro wich is started as root by
> xdm... not the most secure solution, but it works.
>
> On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Terry Tyson wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 07:08:42 -0500
> > To: "marlon corleone" <marloncorleone at yahoo.com>,
> > 	<freebsd-newbies at freebsd.org>
> > From: "Terry Tyson" <ttyson at championelevators.com>
> > Subject: RE: cant write on my msdos partition :/
> >
> > Marlon,
> >
> > I just went through this myself. You must also have rights to the devise
> > itself.
> >
> > 1) chgrp ? /dev/ad0s1
> > where "?" is the group you want to have access.
> >
> > 2) chmod ### /dev/ad0s1
> > where ### is the permission values you want. See the handbook for
> > details.
> >
> > If you have any other questions, please let me know.
> >
> > Terry
>