setting a folder as writeable?

[chenliway]

k i wanna be able to download stuff to a folder on my windows partition so how would i go about doing this? when im logged in as a normal user, i can't save anything to DOS_hda1

it's possible to make only a folder writeable right? cuz i don't need my whole C: drive to be writeable

[demian]

Originally posted by chenliway:
it's possible to make only a folder writeable right? cuz i don't need my whole C: drive to be writeable
Yup, as root do chmod 777 <path/to/folder>

[chenliway]

cool, fanx =P

[chenliway]

ok as root i did chmod 777 -v /mnt/DOS_hda1/downloads
and it said the mode of /mnt/DOS_hda1/downloads changed to 0777 (rwxrwxrwx)

ok, but when i log in as a normal user i still cant save anything to the folder.

[Strike]

That's because of how it is mounted. Search around these forums for "writing to Windows partitions", because I've seen this answered here before a number of times.

[Strike]

And, I also don't think that you can make only a folder of a Windows/DOS partition writeable - it's all or nothing. The vfat filesystem has no permissions built in, so it can't restrict write access on a per-folder basis.