how to enable write support for fat32 patitions for normal users in FC4

truelinux · 09-02-2005, 11:47 AM

I want to enable write support for fat32 partitions for normal users in FC4, as all my common files are stored there. I dont want to login as root every time i want to add data. I tried chmod and logging as root and then modifying permissions, but it didnt work.

Can you help me out?

Thanx in advance!
bye...

jailbait · 09-02-2005, 03:33 PM

"I tried chmod and logging as root and then modifying permissions, but it didnt work."

You cannot change permissions for a mount point while something is mounted on it. umount the fat32 partition, use chmod to set the new permissions, and mount the fat32 partition again.

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Steve Stites

aysiu · 09-02-2005, 03:42 PM

These instructions are for Ubuntu, but they should work for Fedora as well, too:

http://ubuntuguide.org/#automountfat

Of course, Fedora doesn't use Sudo, and if you don't have Gnome, you may not be using Gedit, but the same principles apply.