I installed a second harddrive in fat32 to be able to use it whit both linux and windows. But I cant delete files or folders on if im not logued as root.


The line in my fstab:

/dev/hdb1 /mnt/second_drive auto user,rw 0 0

Can you please help me?

Try adding the option umask=022
This is the octal bitmask of the permissions NOT present (why i dont know).
e.g. while you would use 755 for chmod to give rwxr-xr-x, you use 022 for mount/fstab.

You might also want to change the user option to users (allow everyone to unmount it too, not just the person who mounted it).

Hope this helps
Simon

Try as root
chown -R your_log_name.users /mnt/second_drive
then edit your /etc/fstab
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/second_drive vfat defaults 0 0
Hope this helps
Ciao

BTW this is one of your more common questions asked.

Add umask=000 option for all users to read /write

/dev/hdb1 /mnt/second_drive vfat umask=000,users 0 0

I added umask=000 to my fstab now I can delete when im as user.

But I found a new problem.

When im on Linux I can see data saved from Windows but when im on Windows I cant see my datas saved from Linux.

Do you have any idea?

Thanks!

A scary thought might be that data is being saved with different filesystems overlapping and a disaster is about to occur.

I would format the drive as FAT32 and use vfat not auto as the type in your fstab. As you are dual-booting, I would partition and format it from Windows, I have had the odd problem with using Linux fdisk to set up FAT partitions.

I have two hard drives, first holds 3 Windows partitions (C:, E: and F and 7 Linux partitions, (boot1, boot2, root1, root2, home, swap and spare). The second disk is just a huge Windows FAT32 partition (D which holds data. I divided the disk up using fdisk from Win98SE, then reformatted partitions as Linux using a Mandrake install disk, before installing Gentoo! (Partitioning was easier than it sounds!)

I added umask=000 to my fstab line and its now working

Congrats on solving the problem and thanks for posting back with the solution. Likewise thanks to everyone who replied in this thread. -- J.W.