A FAT32 partition can be mounted in Linux using any of the following methods: Method 1 (across multiple logins) $id #Find out your user id using $vi /etc/fstab #Make entries for all of your partitions that you want to share: /dev/sda1 /mnt/c vfat auto, uid=1234, gid=1234, umask=0027,exec 0 0 $mount -a Method 2 (for current login only) $mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/c chown xyz.xyz /mnt/c