On Sat, 7 Sep 2002, Christopher Howard wrote: > How do I set up so a user can write to /win98/doc, a vfat partition > containing the "Documents" folders. The vfat partition wont take > new ownership or permissions. Is there any way to work around this > so regular users can write to those partitions? vfat partitons ( as you may have noticed) retain the owner:group of the user that mounted the partition. you can allow a non-root user to mount a vfat partition with a fstab entry like mine below - /dev/hda5 /dosd vfat defaults,user 0 0 if your looking for only certain users to be allowed to use the partition, you *might* be able to do this by creating a user with a new group called "vfat" ( or whatever) and then using that user to mount the directory with permissions allowing group writable (0775) then add the specific users to the group "vfat" and it *should* work. -- LINUX, because rebooting is for adding hardware! www.linuxsnob.com <-- a little linux humor, and a very little support.