* subs@spiroswrites.com [08-23-04 14:44]:

I tried the same thing under SuSE 9.1, creating a FAT partition which Win XP sees as E:. It shows up in SuSE as /windows/D/, but it's only writable by root. chmod to add writability for other users claims to succeed, but doesn't do anything. I thought /windows/D/ might be a symlink, but that doesn't seem to be it.

What am I missing? How can this directory be made writable by all users?

look in /etc/fstab for the line for /windows/D/ see if you have 'user' instead of 'users' if you do, change it and you should be able to mount/read/write as a normal user vs root. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/photos

subs@spiroswrites.com wrote:

On my dual-boot system I went from Win 98/SuSE 8.2 to Win XP/SuSE 9.1. Previously I had a data drive under Win 98, mounted as /windows/D/ under SuSE.

I tried the same thing under SuSE 9.1, creating a FAT partition which Win XP sees as E:. It shows up in SuSE as /windows/D/, but it's only writable by root. chmod to add writability for other users claims to succeed, but doesn't do anything. I thought /windows/D/ might be a symlink, but that doesn't seem to be it.

What am I missing? How can this directory be made writable by all users?

Thanks!

Check the entry in fstab. Mine has /dev/hda8 /windows/D vfat rw,users,gid=users,umask=00 02,iocharset=utf8 0 0