file permissions problem

[sladiwala]

i have a windows fat32 partition which i have mounted in my linuxbox. linux and windows partitions are on seperate hard drives. my problem is that there are a few files on my windows partition which i want to access. the problem is only root has access to those files. i tried to change file permissions to mode 0777. it displayed a message saying that the file permissions for the files have been changed, but when i ls -l those files... i saw the permissions remained as they were, i.e. restricted to only root (rwx mode). i want it to be in rwx mode for everyone. the partition has been mounted under /mnt/win1. i am using Red Hat Linux v.6.2

[pbharris]

hello,
everyone whould have read access but only root has write access, right? I think this can be gotton around by adding certain options for the vfat entry in the file called /etc/fstab the forth colum in this file is for options, i don't currently have an fat partion, but do a man fstab, which should tell you which option you can place in there.

vfat does not support any permisions set to it besides the ones it comes with, so chmod won't help.

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