cant write to fat filesysystem

alaios · 06-23-2006, 02:31 PM

Helo to everyone

I dont know why but the last few days i can write to my fat 32 filesystem...

As far as i know everything seems fine to me

Code:

/dev/hda5 on /home/alaios/Documents type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000,gid=100,codepage=737,iocharset=iso8859-7)

/etc/passwd seems fine too
[removed at OP's request]

/etc/group
users:x:100:

The partition seems to be normally mounted

ls -l gives me alaios.user which is the correct permission..
Still i cant use it why>

pansarevaibhav · 06-23-2006, 02:43 PM

Hi,
which distribution u r using . if it is red hat no need to give all this long statements , if it is fat32 partation just do
mount /dev/hda5 /home likewise
and in fstab do the following entry
/dev/hda5 /mountpoint auto defaults
likewise it will work for auto and defaults

pansarevaibhav

alaios · 06-23-2006, 02:51 PM

Thx i have suse 10... I cant understand where my prob relies.. if u can see my mount output u will notice that the partition is correctly mounter rw

alaios · 06-23-2006, 03:09 PM

Hmm i have noticed something strange... when pc boots the patrition is mounted succesfully.. i can wrttie and erase files... The problem arise when i use kget and i try to resume a file it was downloading (the file is being saved at the fat32 part)..then i cant write anymore to partition.... It seems that kget creates that problem to my hard disk but still dont know why

finferflu · 06-24-2006, 07:01 AM

Did you try to write to that partition (for example mkdir /home/alaios/Documents/test) as a normal user?

Maybe the problem is Kget, rather than write permissions on /dev/hda5.
I had similar problems trying to download files with Azureus on a fat partition, even though I am not experienced enough to give you the solution.

alaios · 06-25-2006, 03:27 AM

Yes as a normal user ican do almost everything till the time kget tries to write something to the partition. As i have noticed this makes the partition unwritable. I am really curious to understand how a simple programme makes a partition unwritable

finferflu · 06-26-2006, 04:49 AM

Well, it's not that Kget makes the partition unwritable, it's more like that you can't play around like that with a fat partition (i.e. resuming files).

As for Azureus there is a solution, an option that enables you to write correctly on a fat filesystem, I wonder if there is something similar for Kget...

alaios · 06-26-2006, 05:08 AM

No its the kget problem when i resume the file from kget tha partition becomes unwritable.. Dont u think thats enough to put the blame on kget?

finferflu · 06-27-2006, 05:23 AM

That's exactly what I meant, it's the resuming that creates problem, but I'm not that experienced to explain you why...

chinozie · 07-13-2006, 04:34 AM

have u try umount n then mount back the files...

or

modify the "mount option" in /etc/fstab

alaios · 07-28-2006, 05:45 PM

Yes i have tried it but unmount and mount fails