I am having problems getting into my new partitioned fat32 harddrive. I can't seem to access it through any account other than root. ive tried chmod a+rwx L-W in root but it won't let me change them. can i have any help with this?

heres my fstab:
/dev/hda6 / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hda8 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0
/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-1,ro 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/hd ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-1,ro 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/L-W vfat auto,user,exec,rw 0 0

here is an example:
[root@localhost mnt]# mount L-W
[mntent]: warning: no final newline at the end of /etc/fstab
[root@localhost mnt]# ls -l
total 28
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 8 18:54 cdrom/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 8 18:54 cdrom2/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 9 00:08 hd/
drwxr--r-- 2 root root 8192 Jan 1 1970 L-W/
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Nov 22 14:08 windows/
[root@localhost mnt]# chmod a+rwx L-W
[root@localhost mnt]# ls -l
total 28
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 8 18:54 cdrom/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 8 18:54 cdrom2/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 9 00:08 hd/
drwxr--r-- 2 root root 8192 Jan 1 1970 L-W/
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Nov 22 14:08 windows/

im not sure what this means: warning: no final newline at the end of /etc/fstab

/dev/hda5 /mnt/L-W vfat auto users,exec,umask=0,rw 0 0

Shouldn't this be

/dev/hda5 /mnt/L-W vfat user,exec,umask=0,auto,rw 0 0

or

/dev/hda5 /mnt/L-W vfat user,exec,umask=0,noauto,rw 0 0


Better yet

cd /mnt

mkdir DosDisk

Edit the /etc/fstab file

/dev/hda5 /mnt/DosDisk vfat user,exec,umask=0,noauto,rw 0 0

Then at the end of the line where you see 0 0 postition the cursor after the second zero and hit return at least once before saving the file.

id rather call it L-W thank you....

it works on this setting:

/dev/hda5 /mnt/L-W vfat auto,user,exec,umask=000 0 0
thought the rw and the umask function did the same thing

Note that the minus character in the name is often used by Linux/Unix and Dos for that matter for both parameter arguments and other purposes.

I could potentially be problematic.

alright ill take out the minus sheesh

Hey, I didn't make this up and these are not my "rules"...

It's just something that ends up coming back to bite you later.