[WBEL-users] Mounting VFAT volume

[Daniel J. Summers]

I've gotten all the necessary files on my vfat drive, and everything 
under WXP works fine.  However, I'm having trouble getting the Linux 
side of the house to work.  Here's my /etc/fstab entry for this drive - 
I looked through the man page for mount and fstab, and by what I'm 
reading, this should work.  The problem is that everything on the fstab 
drive is owned by root, and even when running as root, I can't change 
ownership.

=-=-=-=-= fstab =-=-=-=-=
/dev/hdb1  /mnt/drive_d  vfat  rw,user,owner,suid,exec  1 2
=-=-=-=-=

When I use chown, I get "operation not permitted".  Am I being bitten by 
propagated permissions?  Do I need to make a mount point under 
/home/summersd/ (my home directory) and let _those_ permissions work for 
me?  I know that the processes running as root can write to any location 
in the file system.

Thanks...

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