On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 10:56, Dick Brown wrote: > 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. > > I've tried changing permissions, as well as user and group ownership, > but to no avail. I've looked in /etc/inittab and everything looks > normal (i.e., default). I'm sure there must be an easy way to do this, > but I'm still too new to Linux to know what it might be. Any help would > be appreciated. > > Thanks, > Dick edit your your /etc/fstab /dev/hda8 /mnt/wind vfat user,uid=500,gid=500 0 0 note. change /dev/hda8 to match your windows partition this will auto mount the windows partition on startup and permit user to write to it.
