Ok I know this is lame : I've been using Slackware for some time now but I just CAN'T mount my FAT32 and NTFS partitions right today: they mount right but there's no way in hell I've been able to give full rw access to users (well ro on NTFS). I've done it a trillion times but it seems to me that what works for one distro doesn't work on others.

Anyway, here are my fstab entries for those two:

/dev/hda1 /mnt/ntfs ntfs auto,gid=users,ro 1 0
/dev/hdb5 /mnt/fat32 vfat auto,gid=users,rw 0 0

I'm not sure what's missing and what's wrong so please help.

add umask=000 to the options list

hi,

i think for windows-fs this is the best :
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/dev/hda2 /win-d vfat defaults,users,umask=002 1 0
/dev/hda3 /win-e ntfs ro,user,umask=022 1 0
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better have no world-writable partitions ( umask=000 ) .

egag

I added a umask but I'm still being denied access...

check the permissions of the mountpoints.
they should be.

/mnt/ntfs dr-xr-xr--
/mnt/fat32 drwxrwxr-x

if they are correct, and still no luck, post your fstab-lines ( again ).

egag

I've had this problem as well. Add uid=#### (#### being your user id number) to the options list, that's what fixed it for me.