This is a strange problem: I dual boot Win7 (sda2
) and Ubuntu (sda3
) and wanted to use the FAT32 partition to share files across two OS' with the following partition table
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 13 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 13 5737 45978624 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 5738 10600 39062047+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 10601 19457 71143852+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 10601 11208 4883728+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 11209 15033 30720000 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda7 15033 19457 35537920 7 HPFS/NTFS
- I followed a tutorial, issuing:
sudo mkdir /media/FAT32 sudo chmod 777 /media/FAT32 sudo mount /dev/sda6/ /media/FAT32
- After I mounted
/dev/sda6
, I can only read but am unable to write to it.- I checked the directory permissions, which are
drwxr-xr-x
, but after I unmounted it, it becomesdrwxrwxrwx
and I can read and write to it.
- I checked the directory permissions, which are
I don't know where I've went wrong.