Partition Structure/Printer/Thunderbird

[Martin J Hooper]

Scott wrote:
> Preston & Betti Ann Smith wrote:
> 
>>   Is this the recommended partition structure?  I am ready to make 
>> changes is necessary 
> 
> I have also switched from XP to Linux like you did 4 months ago.  If you 
> have a dual boot system I suggest you have a FAT 32 partition that both 
> computers can read.  This will make it easier to share files between the 
> two systems.  The only problem with Kubuntu right now is that, in my 
> case, the FAT32 partition is readable by all but only writable by the 
> root and I don't know how to fix this.
> 


put the following in the mount options for your fat32 drive...

uid=1000,gid=1000

This makes it look like it is owned by you and you can read/write to it.