Newbie question - sharing files on dual-boot XP and FC3

[Bob Brennan]

> > 2. If not, is a shared VFAT partition the best alternative?
> 
> This is the best way anyway.
> 
> > Now to the real problem. At the moment I am mounting the VFAT
> > partition with an entry in fstab:
> > /dev/hda6     /mnt/win     vfat    defaults        0 0
> > Heeding the many warnings on this list about newbies running as root I
> > tried to run as my user account accessing the shared partition (where
> > all of my shared workfiles are) but have no permissions because both
> > owner and group of all files is 'root'. I have tried chown, chgrp, (as
> > root) and anything else I can think of but that does not work, I
> > believe due to it being a VFAT drive mounted by root. I have tried all
> > ways I can think of to mount as a user, all give me access and
> > permission warnings. So the last question:
> >
> > 3. How do I mount the VFAT partition so that an ordinary user can
> > read/write to it?
> 
> See http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/ntfs.html#4.5 and the next
> few entries in that section.
> 
> Paul.

Thanks for the info on NTFS Paul, I will stick with the shared VFAT
partition which works well if I stay logged in as root.

The link above doesn't answer my question number 3 however, which I
believe is a *nix issue - how to mount the VFAT partition so that a
non-root user has full permissions to read/write/execute the files?

bob