writing to Windows partition

[Rick Chen]

On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 10:56, Dick Brown wrote:
> 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.
> 
> I've tried changing permissions, as well as user and group ownership, 
> but to no avail.  I've looked in /etc/inittab and everything looks 
> normal (i.e., default).  I'm sure there must be an easy way to do this, 
> but I'm still too new to Linux to know what it might be.  Any help would 
> be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Dick

edit your your /etc/fstab

/dev/hda8     /mnt/wind           vfat    user,uid=500,gid=500    0
 0

note. change /dev/hda8 to match your windows partition
this will auto mount the windows partition on startup and permit user to
write to it.