mebbe someone here can help me with this little problem.

as root, i can access /mnt/data (hdb1, fat32 partition) just fine, but as myself when i try to access /mnt/data it tells me permission denied. i know that fat32 doesnt support permissions, but the /mnt/data folder obviously does. hmm. i got it to let me access /mnt/data at some point (forgot how) but when i did, everything on the drive came up as individual files, even directories.

any help would be appreciated :)