[GRASS-windows] Problems with accessing location between windows and linux

[Moritz Lennert]

On 10/10/08 11:46, Martin Maier wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am using a dual boot system with Windows XP and OpenSuse. I have
> created some locations and mapsets using GRASS Windows (with the native
> windows installer, 6.3.0-4), on a FAT32 disk. When I now try to access
> these locations out of the OpenSuse System (navigating to the database),
> I can see the created locations, but if I chose a location I get no
> mapsets. So I can not access any data created with the windows version
> of GRASS.
> Is there any difference in creating files between the windows and the
> linux versions of GRASS or is a problem with accessing the FAT32
> file-system with the Linux-GRASS?
> Any hint would be great.

Probably an issue with permissions. How do you mount the windows partition ?

You might be able to create a mapset in SUSE and then use g.mapsets (in 
gis.m: Config->GRASS working environment->Mapset access) to give 
yourself read access to the other mapsets.

Moritz