root is denied the ability to change permissions?

[Dennis Calhoun]

On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 14:44:14 -0800, you wrote:

>Dennis Calhoun wrote:
>> On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 23:19:03 +0100, you wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>>Am Mi, den 24.12.2003 schrieb Dennis Calhoun um 23:09:
>>>
>>>>Yup, it seems very odd to me and I've found no way around it, but when
>>>>I try to use *any* means of changing the permissions on certain
>>>>things, root is denied the ability to do so. I want to make a slave
>>>>drive, that I've properly mounted, open for writing to it under my
>>>>regular username instead of having to log out completely and log back
>>>>in as root. So far I cannot find a way for root to be able to change
>>>>this.
>>>>
>>>>Any idea why this is and what I can do about it?
>>>>If more info is needed, please be simple and clear about exactly what
>>>>you want me to get from where and I will gladly supply it.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>>I bet the drive/partition you are speaking about has a fat32/ntfs
>>>filesystem on it. On such systems you can't chmod/chown.
>> 
>> 
>> Hi Alexander
>> 
>> Yes, it is fat32 (or vfat as linux wants it called). Thing is, as the
>> owner, root, I can read, write and execute... as any other user I
>> cannot write to it.
>> 
>> It really stinks to have to completely log out and then log in as root
>> to be able to write to that drive. The same situation exits on another
>> windows partition too. Is there ANY way to enable my regular user to
>> write to these?
>
>   Use one of the fat mount options for mount.

ONE of? Which one? I've having a hard enough time of learning about
Linux as it is. This is all so foreign to me that I've NO idea what a
lot of this stuff means or what it will or will not do.

Dennis