Shared FAT32 partition
 

HI,

I am running debian etch 2.6.18-5 on a thinkbook and I have it set to dualboot between debian and windows xp. To make things easier I added a 12 gig fat32 partition that is accessible to both OSs. For some reason when i am in debian I can only write files to this partition as root. How come I cant write to it using my regular user account? I have tried to chown -R all of the folders to the user but still it doesnt let me write new files.

Thanks!
- j

Windows' file-systems have no means to store Linux permissions
or ownerships .... read man mount and man fstab, namely the parts
about uid and umask.


Cheers,
Tink

You need to mount with at least these options: defaults,umask=0000,uid=(user uid),gid=(user gid)

change "defaults" to "auto,users,umask=000,rw" in fstab.

Off-topic, but i solved this by putting all data on ext3 partitions, and then using the ext2fsd driver for Windows to allow me to read/write to those partitions. I almost never boot into Windows anymore, but--when I do--it works great.

thanks for the all the suggestions. trying ' auto,users,umask=000,rw ' ... next up: getting those darn nvidia drivers to work...