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NoOneImportant

Member

From: Deep Southern California

Registered: 2007-02-13

Posts: 178

cannot write to fat32 partition

First things first

Here is my fstab file

#
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>        <dir>         <type>    <options>          <dump> <pass>
none                   /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
none                   /dev/shm      tmpfs     defaults            0      0

/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom   iso9660   ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/dvd /mnt/dvd   udf   ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0

/dev/sda2 /mnt/win ntfs-3g defaults 0 1

/dev/sda4 /mnt/ubuntu ext3 noatime 0 1

/dev/sda5 /mnt/sda5 vfat defaults 0 1

/dev/sdb1 /mnt/extra ext3 noatime 0 1

/dev/sdb2 / ext3 noatime 0 1

/dev/sdb3 none swap sw 0 0

/dev/sdb4 /mnt/source ext3 noatime 0 1

For some reason, I am not allowed to write to the fat32 (vfat) partition unless I am root. Despite the fact that I am using the "defaults" option, the options appear to be "rw fmask=0022 dmask=0022 codepage=cp437 iocharset=iso8859-1" according to gnome. I have never had this problem before.

Does anyone know what might be going on?

pelle.k

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From: Åre, Sweden (EU)

Registered: 2006-04-30

Posts: 667

Re: cannot write to fat32 partition

Yes. Let gnome-volume-manager mount it (please be a member of storage group) and you'll have it mounted correctly.
If you refuse to do it automatically, then mount with options;

defaults,umask=002,gid=100

since fat32 doesn't do persmissions really.

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NoOneImportant

Member

From: Deep Southern California

Registered: 2007-02-13

Posts: 178

Re: cannot write to fat32 partition

Thanks.

Along with the options above, I apparently had to add myself to the users group.