How can I make my windows partition user-accessable? I've already set up linux, and I've got my main partition set up, but for some reason, non-root users don't have permission to access /mnt/WinXP (my windoze partition).
I've tried chmod'ing it as root using this command 'chmod a+rwx /mnt/WinXP', but it doesn't change anything. Here is my fstab entry if that helps:

# <fs> <mountpoint> <type> <opts> <dump/pass>
/dev/hda1 /mnt/WinXP auto natime,user 0 0

It is a FAT32 partition, but I don't know what to put as the type entry for that

Oh, I just noticed that I mispelled noatime... i forgot the o. Would that even matter?


EDIT: fixed some spelling

Elaborate please. When you say non-root users can't use the partition, what exactly does that mean? Can they not mount it? When it is mounted, can they see it? If they can see it when root mounts it, can they read from/write to it? Also, what kernel are you using and did you enable support for this type of fs when you built the kernel?

rjtucke

OK... I can mount/unmount and read from it as root (which is all I need to do). However... when I go into a console and type cd /mnt/WinXP to go into it as a non-root user, it says:

In other words, no one but root can use this mounted drive. While I can copy files to and from it after i've su'ed and entered my root password, I need to then chmod all those files so that I can access them as my normal user.

I'm using the gentoo version of the 2.4.26 kernel, and I did enable support for VFAT in the kernel

I've also added the entry to fstab, but I didn't know what FS to put, so I just made it auto. So now I don't have to mount it as root, but ordinary users cannot access it.