Problems writing to vfat partition

GoddessPrime · 09-28-2003, 07:41 PM

Hi, I am trying to properly mount my fat32 partition. I need to be able to read, write and execute anything in this partition as any user.

My problem is that I can write to the drive when I'm logged in as root, but not when I'm logged in as anything else.

Here's the relevant part of my /etc/fstab file

Code:

/dev/hda3		/mnt/win_e		vfat	defaults,unmask=000	0 0

On a possibly related note (in case its related to my user account), whenever I try to open Mozilla as a user I get a prompt window asking to choose what profile I want to use.

Skyline · 09-28-2003, 07:47 PM

It should be

umask=000

not

unmask

This is a typical line:

/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat umask=000,defaults 0 0

GoddessPrime · 09-28-2003, 07:56 PM

Hey thanks!

I was following someone's written instructions, he must have made a typo, though it might also have been mine.