From kde-i18n-doc  Thu Apr 29 11:46:12 2004
From: "Mahesh T. Pai" <paivakil () vsnl ! net>
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 11:46:12 +0000
To: kde-i18n-doc
Subject: Re: Regarding file saving and desktop files
Message-Id: <20040429113412.GA3245 () nandini ! home>
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(1172) said on Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 02:48:52AM -0700,:

 > It  does not  save file  on  fat drive  or floppy  ... gives  error
 > messages like : could not open file for saving or access is denied

What else do you expect? I am not sure that FAT has the capability to
store UTF file names.  After all, it is not a native linux filesystem
format. 

 > It only saves files when I am logged as root ...and only on drives
 > with ext2/3 filesystem... 

That should be asked in your local LUG. Anyway ...
 
Modify /etc/fstab for the concerned drive. There will be lines which
says:-

	/dev/hdaX /mnt/<something>  vfat defaults,users,rw,noauto

(for hardisks - replace X with an appropriate number)

and for floppy:-

        /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto defaults,noauto

Also, read the manual page for `mount'.

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