Trying to open Fat32 partition in NVU success

[Michael V. De Palatis]

Sorry, I should have mentioned that you should look in /media, which
is where "other" partitions (i.e., those that aren't /, /boot, /home
or whatever) are mounted. Also, this is where external media such as
a USB flash drive would go.

Anyway, because FAT32 does not play nicely (so to speak) with unix
permissions, you actually have to edit your /etc/fstab file in order
to get wite permission (I *think* this is the case... I don't
currently have a FAT32 partition to know for sure, so I apologize if
this isn't entirely accurate).

Open up /etc/fstab with sudo and your favorite editor, and look for
the entry that is associated with the partition in question. Make
sure that one of the options (cleverly underneath <options>) is
"users". I think that's all that's really necessary, though you'll
have to unmount and remount as yourself in order to have access:

sudo umount /media/yourpartition
mount /media/yourpartition

(note no sudo on the remounting). So basically your /etc/fstab line
associated with this partition should look something like this:

/dev/hda3       /media/yourpartition     vfat    rw,users,auto   0       0

Hope this helps!

Mike

On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 10:36:04PM -0500, William Wereley wrote:
> Thanks for the help,
> I found the partition listed under media. Strange place to me, but I'm
> learning. An old dog but not unteachable. I have tried a few ways to
> change the permissions so I can edit those files, NVU can edit but not
> save. So sudo into nautilus and that doesn't work. Went into Win2000 and
> set them as shares, no help. Hmmm seems I need to do some terminal
> work.Anyone have any suggestions I've poured through  google and the
> wiki, tried to sudo chmod 775 and nothing 777 nothing. I definately
> missing something and will feel like a jerk when I discover how easy
> it probably is. Anybody, please set on the right path.
> Thanks
> Bill Wereley
> RavenRidgeDesigns
> 
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