Hi all, I hope this is the right place to ask this question, please help as i almost lost all my hair trying to figure this out.

I partitioned my hard drive in 3, so i have XP Pro on the 1st partition, SUSE 10 on the second, and i wanted to use the 3rd one for documents media etc.

The problem is now I only have read access on the partition, and when i try to change the permissions on the drive using the GUI (logged as root), it just gives no warning and the window closes as if it accepted the changes, but by going back into it i realise that no changes have been applied. I followed a thread that was already on here about a similar problem, and still nothing. I also tried to do so using the command line, and get an error message denying me access to the drive.

I even tried to format the new drive still while logged in as root using the vfat file system, but yet again i only have read access to the partion when im logged in as a normal user.

can you please advised, any help will be appreciated. Thanks...

Checking your /etc/fstab or equivalent, do you see this partition mounted r,w?

Also, issue a "mount" command to see if it is mounted r,w

The fat32 file system doesn't support permissions the same way that native Linux file systems do. Try something like the following in /etc/fstab. You'll need to change /dev/hda3 to the value for your partition and /mnt/windows to the place where you want it mounted (remove 'users' if you don't want everyone able to unmount it):

Works like a dream. Thanks a lot