Re: applet backgrounds

[Andrew Lees <andrewl acay com au>]

Desmond Rivet wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
>
.....
> While I'm here, please allow me to ask a generic Linux question.
> I realize this isn't the forum for it but...
> 
> I have a FAT32 partition that I've mounted off of the root directory. It's
> called /share. I use it to pass files between Windows and Linux.
> 
> I have tried to change the permissions of this /share directory/mount
> point so I can put files in there without becoming root. Every time I try
> to do this, however, either with chmod or through the File Manager, the
> changes won't take. Are there any limitation with changing the permissions
> of a FAT32 partition? I'm not tryint to change the permissions of the
> files in the partition, just the partition itself...
> 

An option is to make the partition mountable by mortal users, by putting
something like this in your fstab:

/dev/hda1       /windows/C      vfat    noauto,user 0 0

Then mount it as yourself (not root).  At this point it's writable by
you but not any other user.  I seem to recall there are other more
obtuse means of making dos/windows partitions accessible to users, but
for the moment they escape me.

Regards,

Andy Lees.