cannot write to hard disk partition

[askaterina]

Hello everyone,
I am currently using Linux Feisty Fawn, and I want to ask a question. I have a partition which I want to use to save important files,etc. I can write to this partition only if I login as root. Can I change somehow the write permissions so that I won't have to login and execute everything from the shell every time I want to save or edit something there? I formatted the partition to fat32 file system.
Thank you.

[phoenix910]

Fat32 partitions are not compatible by default with Ubuntu (except for the new one, Gutsy Gibbon or 7.10 - this can write to all Windows file systems). If you just want it to put files on, format it to and ext-3 file system. If this doesn't help, login as root and in the terminal change directory to the mount point for your hard drive, and change the permissions using
chmod 777 /mnt/hda1    (or whatever your drive is, and 777 makes it accessible to everybody, so change the numbers according to what you want - they are octal)

-Stephen