I know this is not a new subject since I see that others have problems with setting correct parameters for vfat partitions in /etc/fstab. I tried several things as suggested in different threads, read the man and googled.

Well, here we go. I am able to mount the partition as either root or user. Only root has write permission and this is the problem. I want to give every user on my system write perm. I created a group (winuser - ugly name, will change this in a soon future to something nicer) that has gid=1003. All users (two) are placed in that group.

Kernel 2.6.8
mount-2.12
udev

Stuff from /etc/fstab about the partition I am trying to mount.
/dev/hda4 /mnt/lagring vfat quiet,user,rw,exec,gid=1003,umask=000,fmask=000,auto 0 0
(is this a little insecure or what...)

Well, output from mount shows:
/dev/hda4 on /mnt/lagring type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,quiet,gid=1003,umask=000,fmask=000,user=my_username_were_here)

I have also tried with some simpler lines like:
/dev/hda4 /mnt/lagring vfat defaults,umask=000 0 0
without success.

In addition to messing around with fstab you also need to set the permissions and ownership for the mount point. You have to umount the mount point, set the permissions and ownership, and remount the mount point.

umount /mnt/lagring
chmod 777 /mnt/lagring
chown username:groupname /mnt/lagring
mount -t vfat /dev/hda4 /mnt/lagring

You may have to set the permissions and ownership for /mnt also. Or you can sidestep that issue by creating a unique mount point:

mkdir /lagring
chmod 777 /lagring
chown username:groupname /lagring
mount -t vfat /dev/hda4 /lagring

Then set up /lagring in /etc/fstab



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Steve Stites

Thank you for the quick an thorough reply.

I tried everything you suggested but ended up with the same result as ever: permission denied.

When not mounted: drwxrwxrwx 2 root winuser 48 2004-08-22 22:00 lagring/
When mounted simple AND from my fstab: drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 32K 1970-01-01 01:00 lagring/
(also: check the date on the folder, i created it some minutes ago in / as suggested).

I have also tried to add a codepage (codepage=437) as recomended in url below. No write permission anyway.
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/lin...08.0/1579.html

Now I have write permission!
I think the problem was that i had two mounted directories, I used the option bind to do that, and for some reason those mounted folders kept the partition "lagring" from properly unmounting or something.

So when i umounted my other partitions and remounted the vfat partition with "codepage=437" I got write permission.
It feels like both a stupid user-error and something other wierd thing. I asumed that the bind:ed folders would automaticaly be umounted when I umount their "parent" partition. But I was wrong.