i had my f and g drive which is FAT32 filesystem mounted using fstab and i use command shown below:-
/dev/hda10 /f vfat auto,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hda11 /g vfat auto,umask=0 0 0


with that command at laiseng account i can create read,write, execute and rename files and folders in /g but not to files and folders deeper then /g
e.g /g/software , /g/xyz and etc

under umask=0 0 0 i should have universal permmission to do anything to that files and folders inside /g but i cant do changes or even rename files and folder deeper then /g/.

so i change fstab to:-
/dev/hda10 /f vfat auto,umask=7 7 5 (which is rwxrwxr-x to normal users)
/dev/hda11 /g vfat auto,umask=7 7 5 (which is rwxrwxr-x to normal users)
but when i bootup system i got this message:-
warning: FAT32 support is in ALPHA

now that my /f and /g is on umask-7 7 5 i want to create a "lls123" folder using konqueror in /f/mymp3s/Directory it gives me an error message saying "access denied to /f/mymp3s/lls123" [OK Button].

strange thing happens to /g
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In theory i cant chmod a vfat partition right?
i've done
# chmod -Rv a+rwx /g
and all the files and folder changes from rwxr-x-r-x to rwxrwxrwx.

after chmod to /g i can have full access to /g which means i can read, write, cut and paste, rename, and etc

will chmod damage my vfat partition on /g?

i'm using kernel 2.6.3

You can use chmod on the unmounted directory but chmod shouldn't affect any files in the partition.

The option umask=7 really means umask=007. umask is the opposite of chmod i.e. umask=000 means full read/write access and umask=777 is no access.

The last two digits are for dump and fsck. The warning about FAT32 support refers to fsck performing a filesystem check at boot. I've read posts that fsck works with FAT32 now but I would still leave it at 0 0. See man pages fstab for additional info.

I do know if vfat support if any changed with the 2.6 kernel for chmod. You could check the kernel docs.

i've tried with umask=000 but i still get "access denied to" message when i'm doing cut /f/mp3s/bonjovi and paste it to /f/mp3s/male/

i've also tried using gid=500 (id 500 belongs to laiseng account)
i've set laiseng to be root group and root to be laiseng group.

when i used gid=500 i cant even access /f and /g

but uid=500 works very well that i can rwx but i think root account wont have full access right?