Ok, first of all let me just say I am a complete linux noob. Anyway the problem is I am dual booting Mandriva & Windows XP. I have windows on a NTFS partition, Madriva on a journal partition or something and then I have a fat32 partition for file storage like media so that I can access the files from both mandriva and windows. However, I can access and change it fine from windows but not mandriva. I have searched these forums lots now and found a few solutions of which none have worked. The problem is when I login as root and change the permissions on HDA7 to 777 it does it then it changes itself back. I have also tried changing the owner and group and it resets that too. So I went to MCC and changed ssecurity level to normal(2), then tried again and had the same result, the permissions reset themself again. I then found this:
/dev/hda7/mnt/win_x vfat umask=0,user,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,exec 0 0
I opened the fstab file and deleted the current HDA7 entry and replaced it with that. I then tried to set the permissions again and got the same result - they reset themself again. So I have no idea what the problem is. In the meantime if I want to change anything on my FAT32 partition or delete or download anything to it, I have to login to root which isnt convenient in the slightest. Please if anyone knows a solution to this please tell me.
Thanks, Lone.