Need help.

Yosua kof2000
Wed Oct 6 21:54:42 PDT 2004


My fstab:

	/dev/hda6        swap             swap        defaults            0   0
	/dev/hda7        /                reiserfs    defaults            1   1
	/dev/hda3        /mnt/c           vfat        
rw,user,dev,exec,auto,async  1   0
	#/dev/hda3        /mnt/c           vfat        defaults,umask=000  1   0
	#/dev/hda5        /home            vfat        defaults,umask=000  1   0
	/dev/hda5        /mnt/d           vfat        defaults,umask=000  1   0
	/dev/cdrom       /mnt/cdrom       iso9660     noauto,user,ro      0   0
	/dev/fd0         /mnt/floppy      auto        noauto,user         0   0
	devpts           /dev/pts         devpts      gid=5,mode=620      0   0
	proc             /proc            proc        defaults            0   0

Questions:
1. is that possible to adjust permission of files/directories in vfat 
partition?

using the fstab above, i, as superuser(root), do :

	root at Slackware10:/mnt# ls -l /mnt
	total 6
	drwxr--r--  8 root root 2048 1970-01-01 07:00 c/
	drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   48 2002-03-16 14:34 cdrom/
	drwxrwxrwx  5 root root 2048 1970-01-01 07:00 d/
	drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   48 2002-03-16 14:34 floppy/
	drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   48 2002-03-16 14:34 hd/
	
	root at Slackware10:/mnt# chmod 777 c/
	
	root at Slackware10:/mnt# ls -l
	total 6
	drwxr--r--  8 root root 2048 1970-01-01 07:00 c/
	drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   48 2002-03-16 14:34 cdrom/
	drwxrwxrwx  5 root root 2048 1970-01-01 07:00 d/
	drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   48 2002-03-16 14:34 floppy/
	drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   48 2002-03-16 14:34 hd/

The permission do not change. What's wrong?

2. I also want to mount my /home directory in /dev/hda5 with umask=000 
line in /etc/fstab but failed with this error message:
==================================================================
There was an error setting up inter-process communications for KDE
The message returned by system is
"Could not read network connection list 
/home/newuser/.DCopServer_Slackware10_0"
Please check that the "dcopserver" program is running
==================================================================


3. In Slackware, applications are bundled into a packages, for example: 
kdeutils-3.2.3-i486-1. For instance, if i don't want the kwallletmanager i 
have to delete the file and any possible files related to kwalletmanager 
manually .
Is there other convenient ways to remove individual applications including 
any dependent files to the application?


i use a standalone PC running windows(2 partitions) and Slackware Linux 
10.0 and have only 6 GB harddrive so i try to use every possible way to 
reserve free space.

Thanks for the help.

Best regards,
Yosua



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