Ok, first of all, I've been using linux for a couple of months now with a couple different distros, and I have never had any problems with mounting any of my FAT32 partitions.
I recently decided to try out the new Mandrake 10 Community release, and about a week after I started using Mandrake 10, this is when the problems started happening. Hopefully someone can help me get this figured out.
This is what's happening:
I have a partition that I am trying to mount in linux. This is no problem, and it mounts just fine with this in my fstab:
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/dev/hda6 /mnt/Slappy vfat user,exec,umask=000,rw 0 0
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Note: I've also tried MANY MANY other fstab entries. Nothing seems to change my problem...
So the partition mounts just fine. And I can read/write to it without any problems at all.
I usually use this partition as my "Download" partition, so I open up Azureus (A BitTorrent client) and I start downloading. Then about after 5 mins of downloading, the downloads will stop and I will get an error in Azureus saying:
Hrmm.. that's strange. All of a sudden linux thinks this partition is read-only? When minutes before I had just tested it by making a directory and writing a new file to the partition using Konqueror.
Now I open up Konqueror again and try to make a new folder to the partition again and I get :
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Error - Konqueror. Could not make folder /mnt/Slappy/New Folder
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And when i try to copy a file over to the partition I get:
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Information - Konqueror. Could not write to /mnt/Slappy/Blahblah
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I also tried doing these things as root in BASH, and it gives me the error:
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cp: cannot create regular file `/mnt/Slappy/01. Hells Bells.mp3': Read-only file system
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Same thing happens with mkdir.
So somehow, for some reason, the partition is changing itself from being read/write for all to becomming read-only.
Sorry for making this post so long, and again, I have tried many many different techniques to try and mount the partition as. None of them worked.
Thanks to whoever can help me on this!
