Hi,

I am currently using Knoppix 5.0.1, HD install, and I am trying to write to my FAT32 partition in order to store some files I want to download with Bittorrent. But when I try to do so, I receive an error message:

Failed to create directory /media/hda1/directory

(Do you have the required permissions?

This is my mount output regarding /media/hda1:

Code:
/dev/hda1 on /media/hda1 type vfat (rw)
where I guess that rw means that it is mounted as read-write, and not read-only.

I also tried to change the permission both on command line (chmod 777 /media/hda1), and on the properties menu (right-click on the icon), but I got no results. And I also tried to click on "Change read/write mode" on the right-click menu of the hda1 icon on my desktop, getting no results.
Then I tried to change the group of the folder to users, and this is what I got:

Code:
root@scatoletta:/home/mmanu# chgrp users /media/hda1
chgrp: changing group of `/media/hda1': Operation not permitted
At the end I tried just to create a folder in /media/hda1 to be sure that my problem was not caused by Bittorrent:

Code:
mmanu@scatoletta:/media/hda1$ mkdir new
mkdir: cannot create directory `new': Permission denied

At this point I am short of ideas, and I don't understand what is going on.

Any suggestion?

Thank you for your time.