Greetings, I am using a lappie + Ubuntu, dual booting with XP. I have made a FAT partition to contain data that will need to be read and written on both OS. I think I have changed the ownership of the FAT directory to root OK but when I tried to make it writable from Ubuntu but it won't have it. I tried
chmod a=rw /media/FAT -R This was meant to give all users (me and also me as root) permission to read and write all files in the folder. Below is the output of ls -l /media/FAT Can anyone see where I've messed up and why it didn't give write permissions? Cheers - Woodsey -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 10158 2004-12-22 22:45 avg6db_f.dat -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 33658 2005-01-01 22:00 div_132.jpg -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 45 2004-12-22 17:20 DSE ADSL Router - ETHADSL_USB_080902_REL9P-B1.txt -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 1807 2005-01-08 20:10 ESoph.txt -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 942 2004-12-05 22:07 Form1.html -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 25088 2004-12-03 20:08 Hi Brian.doc -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 20992 2005-01-01 19:47 Hi Keith and Pauline.doc -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 23552 2004-12-05 18:13 Kiwidata01.doc -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 5070006 2004-12-10 10:40 Motherboard.bmp -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 7559241 2004-12-10 10:39 Motherboard.pcx dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 3584 2005-01-10 10:12 NewKiwi Job Seeker_files -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 29800 2004-12-20 12:57 NewKiwi Job Seeker.htm -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 15872 2005-01-01 19:44 Pension Calcs.xls dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 4608 2004-07-22 13:07 Recycled -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 83968 2004-12-24 09:56 sedoTandC.doc dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 512 2004-07-22 13:07 System Volume Information -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 84567 2004-12-22 10:03 Unitecmcse.pdf -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 22394 2004-12-31 12:06 XFreeInfo.txt -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 44000 2005-01-10 14:59 Xinstall.sh
