I have my pc set to dual boot between Mandrake 8 and Windows 98. That all works fine. My problem is in accessing the vfat partition for Windows. I can open/edit/delete any files on the partition, but when I try to create one, I get an error about not being able to change the ownership of the file. I tried creating a group called win_c and added guid=win_c in the fstab for the particular partition and I added my id as a member of win_c. Upon rebooting, root is listed as the owner and win_c is the group for all of the files on win_c. So far, so good, or so I thought, but I still get the error. The best I can tell is that when Linux boots, and mounts win_c, it does so as root and root becomes the owner. I'm guessing that a vfat partition doesn't allow for actual ownership, so Linux substitutes the owner from when the partition was mounted. You may wonder why I need to create files on the windows partition, but it's quite simple. My kids use the windows partition for games. I have Star Office loaded on both Linux and Windows. That way, I can quickly access my data files regardless of what OS is running. I store the documents on the Windows partition (since Windows can't read anything else) and I don't really want to store them in two places. In short, I guess what I'm asking is how to get the vfat partition to recognize the logged in user as the user/owner of the files (so it doesn't try to change ownership). TIA, Joe
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