I have a XP/Linux RH9 dual-boot PC. I want to mount my windows C and D drives so that I can access the directories read-write from a normal user account. As root, I create a mount point /mnt/dwind and changes its permissions to 777. I then type mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /mnt/dwind As root, I can read/write the directory. As a regular user, its read-only. While the drive is mounted, I also noticed the permissions have reverted to 755. Attempting to change back to 777 as root, gives me an error message saying the operation is not permitted. Am I doing something wrong or is it just not possible to mount the drive read-write?

Use the umask=0 switch when mounting or in your /etc/fstab file, eg: # mount -t vfat -o umask=0 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/dwind or the line in fstab: /dev/hdb1 /mnt/dwind vfat umask=0 0 0

It works! Thanks.