I have two HDD (sda,sdb) installed in my system. sda has four windows partition as one NTFS and three FAT32. sdb has two linux partition one ext3 and one swap and two windows FAT32 partition.
I've ntfs3g installed and two partition got recognized by linux (one NTFS and one FAT32 in sda). Though I didn't got any entry in fstab (I guess ntfs3g has made that entry somewhere else). Now I've tried to mount two FAT32 partition with RW option. I've mounted those drives but write permission is not granted. Here's how my fstab looks like:
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UUID=1e6b0838-6ccb-41d9-978b-197fd7e7325e / ext3 defaults 1 1
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /media/CODES vfat auto,rw,exec 0 0
/dev/sda5 /media/MULTIMEDIA vfat auto,rw,exec 0 0
UUID=59889045-d45c-4d47-8e53-5e07547731f3 swap swap defaults 0 0
vfat entries I've made and you can see there's no entry for one NTFS and FAT32 partition which has been automatically mounted by the OS and those drives are write enabled. The drives I've mounted (CODES,MULTIMEDIA) is not write enabled.
Here's how my disk pattern looks like:
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Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xa499a499
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 3976 31937188+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 3977 16709 102277822+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda3 16710 19456 22065277+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda5 3977 10363 51303546 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda6 10364 16709 50974213+ b W95 FAT32
Disk /dev/sdb: 82.3 GB, 82348277760 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10011 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xa4e5a4e5
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 2511 20169576 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sdb2 2512 5019 20145510 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdb3 5020 9750 38001757+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb4 9751 10011 2096482+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb5 2512 5019 20145478+ b W95 FAT32
