On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, you 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?
>
Edit your /etc/fstab and put "user" in the tags for your
Windows partition, but I advise against doing that and just
use the "mtools" (mcopy, mdel, etc.) to manipulate files on
the Fat32 partition.
John
