OK I wanted to make a shared partition for my WinXP and Slack 9 partitions so I made a Fat32 partition.

My question is, what do I flag in the kernel (2.4.20) to enable read/write for Fat32? Or should I make the partition an NTFS one instead and enable write for NTFS - isn't that option dangerous?

thanks,

Rob

should all be enabled by default, i don't *think* there is a rw flag... certainly don't use ntfs.

to enable writing on fat32 partition set the partition umask when mounting it and then you can change right like on all linux partitions
(try something like thazt in your /etc/fstab:
/dev/hdd1 /mount_point defaults,umask=002 1 0
and it should work)

thanks morg. My brain just isn't functioning well tonight as I still can't seem to get it to work. Here's my currect /etc/fstab if it will help in kickstarting my brain to get this to work:

/dev/hdb2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb3 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/hdb1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdb4 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,users,rw 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,users,rw 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sda4 /mnt/zip auto noauto,users,rw 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/winxp ntfs noauto,users,exec,ro,nosuid,umask=000 1 0
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/usbstick auto noauto,users,rw 0 0

everything in it works - perfectly in fact. But I can't seem to get the new shared fat32 partition to mount. I'm sure it has something to do with this "umask" part because I have no idea what that is and havn't found it in my books either.

thanks,

Rob

well, in fact I don't see any fat32 partition in you /etc/fstab...

it seems that the only windows partition you got is the ntfs one and you actually can't write on ntfs under linux (really unsafe from what I know)
then if the partition you want to mount isn't in your fstab just add it like in my previous post

well no, its not in there yet I tried it manually in the console and it didn't work so I figured I was doing something wrong.