Uttered "Dick Brown" <dikbrown@xxxxxxxxx>, spake thus: > As I mentioned in a previous message, I'm running dual boot > WinXP/Fedora. To enable the easy access to certain data files from both > OS's, I've set up a vfat partition. My problem is that everything on > this partition has "root" as both owner and group, and only root has > write access, so I have to jump through hoops to edit any file there > while in Linux. Replace the "default" setting with a "user,uid=XXX" where "XXX" is your user ID. Then you can mount and unmount the drive as yourself and _not_ have to su to do it.