Wierd problem mounting fat32 partition on redhat 8
 

Hi,
I have a system with 3 partitions, 1 NTFS, 1 FAT32 and 1 ext3.
I just installed redhat 8 on my ext3 partition, and I want to mount the FAT32 partition since it is my shared partition between windows and linux.
Now, whenever I mount the FAT32 partition, I get no error message, everything looks fine, but I am denied write access to the partition, even as root. I had thought maybe the default was no write, so I explicitly specified the partition to be writable when mountable. Even then, I get no error message, just am not able to write to the partition.
Also, I added an entry to /etc/fstab to automount the FAT32 partition on boot. I used the line below:
/dev/hda7 /mnt/d defaults 1 1

since I wanted the partition to be checked at boot time. Now I get a message at boot time saying that FAT32 support is ALPHA. Surely that is not the case? I have mounted FAT32 partitions on other, older distributions (Suse 8, debian 2.2) and it always worked without a glitch.

Could anyone shed some light on this??

By the way, I am using the default kernel - 2.4.18

FloppyColon

try to add a similar line in your /etc/fstab

/dev/hda1 /mnt/c vfat defaults,uid=500,gid=500

500 was the user and group id of my user. This causes all files on the
volume to be owned by the specified user and group.

Hi, sorry for replying late, my internet connection was down.

I tried the above line, but no difference. I still cannot write to the partition.

Maybe something else??

Thanks,
FloppyColon

I use this on my fat32 partition:
/dev/hda2 /mnt/fat32 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0