On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 18:05, Rick Chen wrote: > 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. > This will work O.K. but if you add another user (s)he won't have access to these files. Try this instead: (From /etc/fstab) /dev/hda5 /mnt/media vfat noauto,owner,users 0 0 the important item is <users> man says that this allows anyone to mount the FS. Just be sure to chmod your mountpoint to the appropriate permissions. Scott
