writing to Windows partition

[Tommy Reynolds]

Uttered "Dick Brown" <dikbrown at qwest.net>, spake thus:

> As I mentioned in a previous message, I'm running dual boot 
> WinXP/Fedora.  To enable the easy access to certain data files from both 
> OS's, I've set up a vfat partition.  My problem is that everything on 
> this partition has "root" as both owner and group, and only root has 
> write access, so I have to jump through hoops to edit any file there 
> while in Linux.

Replace the "default" setting with a "user,uid=XXX" where "XXX" is
your user ID.  Then you can mount and unmount the drive as yourself
and _not_ have to su to do it.