Hi
I installed Kubuntu and during installation I partitioned my HDD into 2 partitions, which one of them is a fat32.
unfortunately whatever I do I can't get the fat32 partition to work without needing to be root.
I've tried totc/vfat = /dev/hda2 /media/hda2 vfat auto,umask=777 0 0 change my fstab to every possible thing but no hope.
I've tried all these options:
/etc/vfat = /dev/hda2 /media/hda2 vfat auto,umask=777 0 0
/dev/hda2 /media/hda2 vfat auto,umask=666 0 0
/dev/hda2 /media/hda2 vfat auto,umask=000 0 0
/dev/hda2 /media/hda2 vfat defaults,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hda2 /media/hda2 vfat iocharste=utf8,umask=666 0 0

followed by sudo mount -a to remount the partitions.
Anyone with any idea plz drop a line.
Cheers

You need to add "user" to the fourth column to make it user-mountable

Try this instead:

oneandoneis2, how can I add user to the fourth column, mind including the code, for this instance the user is "nic"
duffmckagan, I tried ur line and several more with no hope,


Is there any way I can change the file system from vfat to a linux file system of any sort, on the fly, without losing data, I remeber doing the other way around from linux to vfat using some command line commands, but now I've lost touch.

And given I'm able to do that, can I still see that partition from my MS box?

Cheers

I mean visible from MS box via LAN (samba)

Hi, try this line in the fstab instead:

where xxx is the ID of the user who you want ownership of the partition to belong to.



Regards,
Edwin

How can I find what user ID and Group ID is?

Supposing the user who you want ownership to belong to is "johndoe", do

You should see the output something like

Then the first "1002" is the required uid and the second "1002" is the required gid.



Regards,
Edwin

Edwin11 is right for the way to make it properly,

here is the line I use for my fstab (ubuntu also)

gid=100 and uid=1000 should match the ID of the first account you created during the installation, that has admin group rights.