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  1. Bug #236975
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 236975

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Georgios Kolomvos (kolomvosg) wrote : Re: [Bug 236975] Re: WUBI Ubuntu 8.04, access permissions on "/host" folder cannot be changed

Thank you Andrew, these last instructions worked very well for me (I
applied them on the 12 windows XP machines with WUBI 8.04 that i have in
the computer lab of the school i work for as a teacher).

Georgios Kolomvos
Patras, Greece

Andrew Flegg:
> A slightly neater way, rather than modifying root_locale is to add a new
> root_opts file:
>
> 1) Create "/usr/share/initramfs-tools/conf.d/root_opts" containing "export ROOTFLAGS" <----[ this is the root cause of step 2 not working alone]
> 2) Append "rootflags=gid=115,fmask=113,dmask=002" to the end of the "#kopt=" line in /boot/grub/menu.lst
> 3) Run "sudo update-initramfs -k all -u" and "sudo update-grub"
>
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