Changing permissions of FAT32 drive

frogrocker · 12-03-2005, 04:05 AM

I'm running Ubuntu with Windows dual boot, so I have set up a FAT32 partition so that I can read and write from both Ubuntu and Windows to use with files, etc.

The trouble is, it's mounted at /media/hda5 but with root ownership and no write permissions for users. I've tried using "chmod a=rw..." and "chown will ..." but it says "operation not permitted".

I've also tried running nautilus in root mode, but it won't let me click the box to change permsissions.

Any Ideas?

TIA,
Will.

acid_kewpie · 12-03-2005, 04:21 AM

you can't chown files, you need to use the umask option at mount time in you fstab , e.g. umask=000 to allow full access to everyone. alternatively you can use the uid=<youruseruid> option instead so your won user owns the files.

aysiu · 12-03-2005, 04:51 PM

http://www.ubuntuguide.org/#automountfat