Hi all
First, Ive searched the forum and found this
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...fat+hard+drive
Ive followed this thread and still have the same problems.

This is my setup,
Ive got a dual boot pc.
Win xp on one drive, Redhat 9 on the other and the third drive is fat32 storage.
Ive edited fstab and got the storage drive to mount on desktop
my fstab for this drive is;
/dev/hdf1 /mnt/hdf1 vfat users,umask=000,rw 0 0
This sort of works but when I copy a file konqueror pops up a message saying
'unable to change permissions for /mnt/hdf1/somefilename'
This makes it impossible for programs like xmule to write files to this drive
I'm a newbie to Linux and find the man pages very confusing.

I think that FAT32 cannot handle permissions very well. As long as you have umask=000 then those error messages shouldn't be a problem. I get this all of the time but have no problem actually using the FAT drive

Thats a relief, someone else with the same problem.
I have tried loads of fstab combinations and have got no-where for months now
Its just xmule, my newsreader, Pan has no problems writing to this drive, and Konqueror copies files across ok despite the warning about permissions.

This thread says it all really:
http://linuxquestions.org/questions/history/135713
Not sure why xmule doesn't work though. The best filesharing program has got to be giFT though (or possibly bittorrent, although personally I've never tried it). I'd give that a go instead, or unless you download hideous amounts with xmule try just saving to your home dir and moving things manually.