Can't write to mounted disk.

[Mike]

Ouattara Oumar Aziz wrote:
> Mike a écrit :
>   
>> Hello,
>> I have a dual boot, XP/Kubuntu 6.10 system. Kubuntu is installed on its 
>> own disk.  One partition on that disk is ntfs.  When I boot XP, I can 
>> see and write to this partition.  On Kubuntu, I can see it but can only 
>> read from it.  On the linux side, I used the KDE control panel, to 
>> define the owner, group, and mount point.  I did check the writable box. 
>> The following line appears in fstab.
>>
>> /dev/sdb4 /home/madolf/Common ntfs uid=1000,gid=1000,auto,rw,owner 0 0
>>
>> What else do I need?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mike
>>
>>     
> ntfs write support is not activated per default in Ubuntu.
> Try sending a mail to Microsoft asking them to release the NTFS spec :p 
> ( sorry , just kidding :p )
>
> See http://tinyurl.com/yppuad to know how to enable it.
>
>
>   

I reformatted the partition using mkfs.msdos -F32 /dev/sdb4.  The 
Properties display on both Windows and Linux identify it as F32 and VFAT.

The fstab entry is now

/dev/sdb4 /home/madolf/Common vfat 
noauto,uid=1000,gid=1000,auto,rw,owner 0 0

It shows up in /home/madolf as a disk volume icon on linux and \F on 
Windows.  All ownership is set to me not root.

PROBLEM: I can write and read on Windows. I can write and read on 
Linux.  BUT I cannot see on either system what was written on the 
other!  What's going on?