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cell

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Registered: 2007-10-23

Posts: 111

[SOLVED]How do I get rw access to a vfat partition?

I need user rw access to my vfat partition how would I go about setting it up.

Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x19b819b8

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1       11601    93185001    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2           11602       11732     1052257+  83  Linux
/dev/sda3           11733       38913   218331382+   5  Extended
/dev/sda5           11733       13022    10361893+  83  Linux
/dev/sda6           13023       13153     1052226   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7           13154       28609   124150288+  83  Linux
/dev/sda8           28610       38913    82766848+  83  Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000b0d11

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1               1       20525   164867031    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb2           20526       24351    30732345    b  W95 FAT32
/dev/sdb3           24352       30401    48596625    5  Extended
/dev/sdb5           24352       25404     8458191   83  Linux
/dev/sdb6           25405       30401    40138371   83  Linux

# 
# /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   udf,iso9660   rw,user,noauto   0      0
#/dev/dvd /mnt/dvd   udf   ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/sda2 /boot ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sdb5 / ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sdb6 /home ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sdb1 /backup ntfs nls=utf8,umask=0222 0 1
/dev/sdb2 /vfat vfat iocharset=utf8,umask=000 0 1
/dev/sda8 /vmiso ext3 defaults 0 0

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Last edited by cell (2007-10-23 22:42:01)

cell

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Registered: 2007-10-23

Posts: 111

Re: [SOLVED]How do I get rw access to a vfat partition?

The following works.

/dev/sdb2 /vfat vfat auto,iocharset=utf8,rw,noexec,umask=000  0 1

I had just tried all kind of things maybe a reboot is sometimes needed or maybe I just hit the right combo.