This is probually a stupid question. I have a dual boot machine running Slack 8.1 and XP. When I can not change attributes on files and directories my f drive in Windows. Here is a copy of my fstab.

/dev/hdb1 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb2 / reiserfs defaults 1 1
/dev/hdb3 /data reiserfs defaults 1 2
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat defaults 1 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/win_f vfat defaults 1 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 auto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom2 iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0

I tried changing the defaults to rw. In Mandrake I had problem changing attribute. I am kinda new to Slack. Thanks

Hi there ...

try a
and
You'll probably want to play with
and change the "defaults" field ... look at things like uid, gid
and umask in mounts manual...!

Cheers,
Tink

Do you mean you're trying to "chmod" some of the files on your windows partitions? I don't think the vfat filesystem has any knowledge of permissions.

Somebody, please correct me if I'm wrong here, but doesn't linux give ownership permissions to the user who mounts the filesystem? If so, then add the "user" keyword to your windows partitions, and then any normal user can mount/umount the partitions. If that statement is correct, then they should be able to read/write those files. Basically, this is information you'd find in the man pages for fstab that Tinkster mentioned.