Fat32 and Red Hat Linux 8
 

Hey,

I'm new to linux and after some internet searching I found a lot of information on fstab entries for automounting a FAT32 partition in Linux.

My fstab configuration for this partition is now:

This configuration allows me to read and execute the files on my FAT32 partition but, doesn't allow writing to it.

Can someone give me the correct configuration-line so this partition will also become writeable.

Thanks,
Kind regards,

Maarten

I would advice you to first check if you have permission to write to /mnt/win. If you don't, you will need to chmod it:

http://www.manpagez.com/man/1/chmod/

If that still does not solve the problem, I think you need to add the userID and the groupID as well to fstab as well, but I could be wrong. Something like:

Although, I really recommend you to check for the permissions for that folder first ;)

Good luck!

Thanks, for the reply.

I tryed to set the permissions to 0777 using the chmod function. However I always recieve a message that the operation is not permitted. I excecuted chmod as root.

The partition is mounted as root. You will need to be logged in as root (su) in order to write to the mounted partition.

That's correct as root I'm able to write to the partition. However I would like to be able to do this with all users.


Kind regards,

Maarten

Previously there has been a similar query in this forum, please search that. U may find the answer.

Hey,

Thanks to all the contributors above (and to the forum in general).

I found the missing piece for solving my problem in the post "red hat 7.3 + fat32" (

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...3-fat32-22141/)

Kind regards,

Maarten

Hey Maarten,

You do realise that Redhat 8 is extremely old, right? RH8 was released in 2002 (ie: 7 years ago).

Unless you have a specific reason to be running it, I would strongly recommend updating to a modern, supported distro.

--IAn

Hey IBall,

In the risk of going way off topic.

I'm aware of the fact that RH 8 is old. However for my purposes (learning the basics) and hardware (little -128- RAM memory) it's sufficient (not great, but sufficient).

Kind regards,

Maarten