Viktor Lakics wrote:
> 
> Dear Mandrake users,
> 
> Does anybody know how to set write permission for users to a FAT32 partition
> under MDK6.1 linux?
> 
> As root I am able to read and write the mounted Windows partitions. As user, I
> can only read from them. I tried  chmod o+rw /dev/hda1 as root succesfully, (I
> mean after ls -al the permissions are set) but it is still not possible to
> write to those partitions as a USER.
> 
> Anybody has an idea how to make those partitions writable for all regular
> users?

In /etc/fstab set the mount options to:

rw,uid=0,gid=<group you belong to>,perm=775

You can also set these thru linuxconf.  File Systems -> Access Local
Drive -> <partition> -> Dos Options.

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