[Sderby] Mounting a vfat partition?

[James Carter]

Peter Hughes wrote:
> At 16:24 12/04/2003,James Carter wrote:
> 
>> Hi
>>
>> Quick question; Can linux mount a vfat partition in read/write mode?
>>
>> Cheers James
>>

> 
> Yes you can. I'm not sure of the options you need to specify. I will 
> find out and reply later. I have a dual boot windows 98/ Mandrake 9.0 
> system and use a vfat partition to share files between the two operating 
> systems
> If you have an NTFS partition I think that can only be mounted as read only
> 
> Peter

I have been having problems writing to the partition. I initially 
thought it was because it was mounted read only, but I have been able to 
write to it as root. However when I have tried to change permissions I 
am told that it is not permitted..... Am I doing anything obvious wrong?

[root@upstairs mnt]# ll
total 36
drwxr-xr-x   11 root     root        16384 Jan  1  1970 backupdisk
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Sep 29  2002 cdrom
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Feb 14 19:15 cdrom1
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Feb 10 21:25 floppy
drwxr-xr-x   16 root     root         8192 Jan  1  1970 windows
[root@upstairs mnt]# chmod g+w windows
chmod: changing permissions of `windows' (requested: 0775, actual: 
0755): Operation not permitted

/etc/fstab entry
/dev/hda1		/mnt/windows		vfat	owner,users 0 0

James