write permisions on freespire to FAT 32 drives

AGazzaz · 03-12-2007, 01:56 PM

Hello,
i have just installed Freespire a nice distro actually but i am having a problem i have had with every other distro

i can not write to fat32 drives

and here are the contents of the fstab file

Code:

rootfs	/	reiserfs	comment=jiffymount,noatime,nodiratime,rw	0 0
none	/proc	proc	defaults	0 0
none	/sys	sysfs	defaults	0 0
none	/proc/bus/usb	usbfs	defaults	0 0
none	/dev/pts	devpts	rw	0 0
tmpfs	/dev/shm	tmpfs	rw	0 0
UUID=631d66cc-b212-11db-b211-6166d7bfabe7	/mnt/hda8	swap	comment=jiffymount,noatime,nodiratime,user,exec,dev,suid	0 0
/boot/linux-swap.swp	none	swap	sw	0 0
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7	/mnt/dos	vfat	comment=jiffymount,noatime,nodiratime,user,exec,dev,suid	0 0
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6	/mnt/dos2	ntfs	comment=jiffymount,noatime,nodiratime,user,exec,dev,suid,user	0 0
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5	/mnt/dos3	vfat	comment=jiffymount,noatime,nodiratime,user,exec,dev,suid	0 0
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1	/mnt/winxp	vfat	comment=jiffymount,noatime,nodiratime,user,exec,dev,suid	0 0
/dev/floppy/0	/mnt/floppy1	auto	comment=jiffymount,noatime,nodiratime,user,exec,dev,suid,noauto	0 0
/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd	/mnt/cdrom1	supermount	comment=jiffymount,dev=/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd,fs=iso9660,--,ro,user,exec,unhide	0 0
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/cd	/mnt/cdrom0	supermount	comment=jiffymount,dev=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/cd,fs=iso9660,--,ro,user,exec,unhide	0 0

gilead · 03-12-2007, 02:13 PM

The user option will allow ordinary users to mount the file systems, but doesn't give them rights to modify them. Probably the easiest way is to add the umask option:

Code:

/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7  /mnt/dos  vfat  comment=jiffymount,noatime,nodiratime,user,exec,dev,suid,umask=0000  0  0

Have a look at man mount, there's more info there. You can also set permissions by user or group id.

AGazzaz · 03-12-2007, 02:32 PM

Thank you for the fast reply
but i can not tell you if it worked or not because i have just decided to switch to mepis since i can not use the root account (command: su ==> wrong password and i do not remember supplying a password while installation) and the admin (created while installation) user can not edit fstab file

but thank you for your reply

gilead · 03-12-2007, 02:43 PM

No problem - the same settings apply in Mepis as well. /etc/fstab exists in all Linux distros.