here is my story

i my 4 partitions, hda1 is Windows xp ntfs partition, hda2 is Fat32 partition, hda3 is ext3 for my
FC2, and a swap partition at hda4.

i mount my Fat32 partition as /mnt/fat32

i find that when i login an account other than root, i cannot write to the that partition, and the permittion profile of the /mnt/fat32 is rwxr-xr-x, i use chmod to change the permission, but it failed, and i used X-window and right click to change it, it failed also.

how can i write to that fat32 partition when i am not root?

thanks

Sorry for my bad english

Check in /etc/fstab if the hda2 line has "ro" in it as an option. If yes, it means the partition is mounted read-only and you will not be able to write to it. Change the option to "rw", save and remount or reboot.

the line look like this
/dev/hda2 /mnt/fat32 vfat defaults 0 0
which column i have to change

thanks again

You have it set to "defaults", which includes read/write (rw) ability, so that doesn't seem to be the problem.

If you are the only user on your system, you could try setting yourself (your login name) as the owner of /mnt/fat32

su to root and type in terminal:This will give you (not root) ownership of /mnt/fat32 and all dirs and files inside it and you should be able to write to it

Having said that, it's not the ideal situation, because that partition is then writeable by anyone who can access your computer. If you have important data on that partition, maybe it's better to leave root as the owner and just su to root whenever you need write access

Or edit the line to read:

/dev/hda2 /mnt/fat32 vfat noauto,user,rw 0 0

You can then mount and umount it too. This is probably the best way.

thank you for you reply,i tried it but a problem arised, when i type chown -R username /mnt/fat32 in my terminal, it tried to change the file permission of every single file of the fat32 volume, but it failed to
do so and said it is not permitted.

is there a way to change the permission of the folder of /mnt/fat32 only, i tried unmounting it, than chown
/mnt/fat32, but nothing happened.

i have a new problem, the line of /dev/hda2 /mnt/fat32 vfat defaults 0 0
is highlighted, and i cannot change something at that line, it seems that it is "locked"

you need to su to root to edit it.
hint: try using the midnight commander, type "mc", but be careful when editing fstab - make a backup of it first.