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i just installed a fresh copy of kubuntu to my pc, after trying out various other distro's and deciding i liked kubuntu best. anyways, i have a fat32 partition on my pc so that i cna share stuff between my windows and linux partitions. my fstab line has always read
Code:
umask=000,rw 1 0
and this has always given me read/write access to the partition as a normal user. now i entered the same line to my fstab, and all my documents in the partition are appearing as read-only! what changed? how can i get the read/write access to the partition back?
..........is it read/writeable to your user??
and the icon you use to mount - unmount the partition.........are the permissions set for user to access it???
what do you mean by read/writeable to the user? i made a directory /mnt/DATA, where i want the fat32 partition mounted. this is currently my fstab entry:
Code:
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/DATA vfat umask=000,rw 1 0
it always worked before, with kubuntu and every other distro i've tried, but now it's showing all my files as read-only...
Originally posted by jnev i did 'sudo mount -a' each time. does the same thing, right???
Well, they're two very different things. One is manually mounting via a command. The other is automatically mounting using specifications in the /etc/fstab file.
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