Hello currently using slackware 11.0,i have managed through the excellent guides on here to succesfully mount my usb stick and acess the device but cannot create any new folders or write to the stick,i believe it must be a permission problem somewehre,i have included my fstab output here,iam sure it is something so easy...

/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda3 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/sda1 /mnt/usb vfat defaults 1 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom 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



many thanks

adrian

can't you write as root or as user?
check with chmod for the permissions.
And do you really want to include it into /etc/fstab ?

What happens if you mount it as root
like

hello i can access the device and write to as root but not as a normal user...

regards

adrian

There may be better ways to acheive this, but changing the /dev/sda1 line as below will give you access.
You can do the same with the /dev/fd0 line by replacing owner with users and also /dev/cdrom, except it remains ro.

This will give you access from the desktop, with a mouse click or two on the relevant icon. The device should mount. Otherwise mount it as user.

Many thanks for your reply...

i have tried this and it will let me acess the drive as a user but still cannot write to the device as user,i can when iam in root though so it is not a major problem but one i would like to sort out..

regards

adrian

Ah, I see.
#chmod 777 /dev/sda1

Gives global permissions. You should be able to write to it with this.

excellent this now works many thanks it is much appreciated

Keeping in mind that it is accessible to everyone.
Now you know it works, a more restrictive set of permissions might be more appropriate.

#chmod 755 /dev/sda1

thank you for that have used your last set of commands now much appreciated...

thanks

adrian