Need help.

[Net Llama!]

On 10/06/2004 08:06 PM, Yosua wrote:
> 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?

No, vfat has no concept of permissions.  Yell at Microsoft for that.

> 
> The permission do not change. What's wrong?

See above.

> 
> 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:

Huh?  Based on your fstab, /dev/hda5 is a vfat partition, so how would 
you have anything useful for $HOME in there?

> ==================================================================
> 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
> ==================================================================

Those are KDE errors, and have nothing at all to do with mounting 
filesystems.

> 
> 
> 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?

Sorry, i have no clue what yo're referring to.  Perhaps someone else who 
uses KDE might know though.

> 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.

Deleting the windows partitions would save alot of space (and frustration).


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