Hey all, running slack 10 full install, default kernel. My problem is, i have multiple fat32 partitions i share between win2k and slack. win2k has no problem writing to them and such. but when i load up slack, only root can read the drives, and when i try and change permissions on the drives to my user, or even under advanced permissions checking everything and clicking ok. it doesnt give me an error, but when i go back to the permissions window, its back to what it was, no changes were kept. even tried changing permissions with chmod +rwx /mnt/backup and chmod +rwx /dev/hda5. is there something i obviously dont know? from what i've read, the kernel has had built in rw abilities with vfat drives since 1.2.x i think. i have no experience with fat/vfat drives in linux, so any help would be appriciated. thanks.

- Neverwhere

post your fstab file. The line in my fstab for the fat partition on my pc is:

this may help.

that won't fix it, you need to set "umask=000" as an additional option for EVERYONE to be able to write to it.

cool, thanks alot guys, that fixed it

- Neverwhere