I had a windows machine and installed slackware 10.2 on it, but kept my storage harddrive for my stuff.
I have it in my fstab, but only root has permisions to use it. How do I change that and how do I mount it
by console. Its reffered to in my dmesg as hdb1, ok so this should work, but it dosn't.

mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /mnt/storage

Here is my fstab
dev/hda1 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda2 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda3 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/storage vfat defaults 1 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/hdd /mnt/dvd auto noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
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Oh it doesn't work hey? That's a bummer, I hate it when stuff doesn't work. Fortunatly, when something doesn't work on my computer, I have an error message in front of me that makes diagnosing the problem significantly easier. Stop me if I'm going to fast for you...

Hi

I will assume that you know nothing and try to be thorough in my answer. No offence intended.

The mount command is correct but you need to be root. To do this, enter the command su then your root password to operate as root.

myname $ su
Password:
myname #

The password does not show as you type it.
You know you are root (or superuser, which is what the su stands for) when the prompt changes from $ to #

To edit fstab as root, find the command for your favourite text editor (eg gedit kedit kate gxedit nano vim etc ...) then run the command (I use gedit in this example)as root

# gedit /etc/fstab

You will find many examples of a fstab entry for a shared fat32 partition if you search through linuxquestions.

check also the manual pages for mount and fstab

$ man fstab

$ man mount

Note - to exit a manual page type q

hope this helps