I'm on SUSE 9.3, trying to acces my windows XP files (computer with both OS's). I can read but I can't modify them because it says I don't have sufficient permission (windows directory is FAT32). I log on as root and when trying to modify permissions (with my user login I can only view), I get the following messege

Could not modify the ownership of file /windows/D/My Music/El Binomio de Oro/Las mejores 40 pegaditas/Unknown Album (09-04-2005 11-08-17 p.m.)/40 Niña bonita.mp3. You have insufficient access to the file to perform the change.

I get it several times for different files . I tried looking at windows file properties and eliminated the read only attribute for my D drive. Get the same thing.

Any suggestions please_

Thanks

Greetings,
I don't think what you're trying to do is possible. Allow me to explain. The FAT32 filesystem does not have permissions at all. However, Linux requires file permissions in order to function. So, when a Linux system mounts a FAT32 partition it has to mask permission values. This means basically that it takes a given value, and applies it to all files and directories in that partition. This sort of tricks the kernel and allows it to work with the files. Anyhow, to the best of my knowledge, it is not possible to modify the permissions (in this case ownership) of a specific file because the required file permissions don't actually exist, only the mask. Most likely, you will have to move the files to a Linux partition if you want to change ownership.

I hope this helps. Anyone feel free to correct me if my facts aren't quite right.

Thanks for the explanation.

Nonetheless, it seems I was utilizing a mistaken approach to solve the problem. Nothing to do with windows OS. All I did was login as root and modify the permission of USERS to read and write. In this way, when I logged in as NON_ROOT, I could modify my FAT32 drive (i.e. delete, cut, create, etc.)

THANKS AGAIN.