I'm currently running Knoppix 4.0.2 on my laptop alongside a small windows XP partition and a large fat32 partition both OS's share. I have my windows Desktop, My Documents, and those kinds of folders on the shared partition. fstab sucessfully mounts the shared partition, except for one detail (well, two). The minor issue is that the partition is mounted as root, but I would like it mounted as 'eric'. Not a big deal..I just have fstab mount with 777 permissions. Herein lies the problem...

When it mounts, all the folders take the 777 permissions except two. "My Documents" and "Favorites". I'm sharing "My Documents" and "Desktop" between both OS's, so I need to have writing permissions. For some reason unknown to me, those two folders have 555 permissions (their subfolders and files have 777, but it won't let me write unless I'm root.) If anyone knows what I can do, please let me know. Here's the fstab line that mounts:

/dev/hda5 /home/eric/hda5 vfat auto,users,exec,umask=000 0 0

Thanks!

-Eric

try adding this line to the fstab instead of the one you use, windows doesn't really get along with file permissions

/dev/hda5 /home/eric/hda5 vfat noauto,rw,user,users,gid=users,umask=0000,showexec,quiet,utf8=true 0 0

Thanks! Seems to have worked, whough I did change the noauto to auto (my background and desktop are on that partition, so I need it to mount before I log in).