Mounting Fat32

[Alan McKinnon]

On Sunday 16 April 2006 07:51, Avraham Hanadari wrote:
> xenmax wrote:
> > For your FAT32 partitions, follow instructions in this thread:
> > http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=144321
>
> Upon restarting the computer after the earlier change to
> rw,defaults, and discovering that I still did not have ownership of
> the partitions, I made the changes suggested in the forum. fstab
> now looks like this:
>
> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> #
> # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump> 
> <pass> proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0   
>    0 /dev/hda3       /               ext3   
> defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1 /dev/hda7       none          
>  swap    sw              0       0 /dev/hdd        /media/cdrom0  
> udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0 /dev/fd0       
> /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0
> /dev/hda6	/media/office	vfat	iocharset=utf8,umask=0000		0	0
> /dev/hda5	/media/storage	vfat	iocharset=utf8,umask=0000		0	0
>
> I then ran sudo mount -a. No change. I then rebooted the computer.
> No change. I then notes that farther below in the forum, three
> naughts/zeros were used. I made that change as well. Still no
> change. I am still not the "owner" of the two vfat partitions. I
> still cannot edit OpenOffice files that are stored there.

You don't *need* to be the owner of the directory containing the 
partition, or even a member of the group that owns it. You only need 
to have access rights, so if "other" users have write permission you 
will be ok.

Your mistake is probably removing the rw option. Put it back.

What happens is that when "ro" is set, the kernel throws write 
requests away, regardless of what the permissions might say.

Just in case, when the vfat partitions are mounted, what is the output 
of 'ls -al /media'?

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Alan McKinnon
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