Setting permissions for partitions

[Razorblade]

Yesterday I tried to allow me (as user) to write and read to and from a partition I mounted /Programs following this thread.
/Programs is on /dev/hde2 and is ext3. After some tries it worked fine.

Then I tried to set the same permissions for a vfat partition on /dev/hda2 /Working. I wanted to use this as an interface between Windows and Fedora to share files.
But when I entered "chgrp razorblade /Working" there's a message saying "Cannot set permissions on Hard Drive /dev/hda2" Same error occurs when trying to set permissions for /dev/hde6 /Transfer vfat (as a network share)

All drives are mounted on boot and as root I'm able to read and write from and to these partitions but as razorblade I can only read from the vfat partitions.

fstab says:

/dev/hde2 /Programs ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda2 /Working vfat defaults 0 0
/dev/hde6 /Transfer vfat defaults 0 0

Could anybody please help me?

[james_in_denver]

Windows doesn't have the same "userid and group" scheme as Linux does.

Just change the "mountpoint" (ie: directory you mount the fat32 partition on) to allow user read-write, something like "chmod 775 /your/windows/mountpoint". and in the "/etc/fstab" file, change the mount opttions for that partition from "default" to "default,user".

[Razorblade]

Thanks James_in_Denver

Somehow chmod does not really affect vfat partitions.

I edited my fstab like this:

/dev/hda2               /Working    vfat           auto,rw,user,umask=000 
/dev/hde6               /Transfer    vfat           auto,rw,user,umask=000

Works fine! User and root have read/write access.
Thanks again.

[james_in_denver]

No,

"chmod" cannot affect FAT32 partitions, but it CAN affect the mountpoint, and if the mountpoint does not have the proper permisions for "regular users" then the Linux kernel will prevent access before it even gets to the "fat32" filesystem limitations.....