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External USB hard disk wont allow user to write, vfat FS

Ok, I have an external USB disk, just a regular drive in an enclosure that uses USB to connect to the PC. No matter what mount option or fstab variations I try I cannot get user level write access, I was at one point able to get root write access, but that doenst much help.

It isn't any sort of weird or outrageous format, just plain old vfat. I am using Fedora Core 3, any suggestions would be very much appreciated!

Scott McNeely

It looks like it migt be a bad setting in /etc/fstab. Can you post the contents of that file?

See below for the FSTAB contents. That doenst get me user write access, neither does just defaults, just umask=0 or 000, any of those plus user,users, or anything els that I could think of or dig up on the internet...

Code:

# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details

LABEL=/1                /                      ext3    defaults        1 1

LABEL=/boot1            /boot                  ext3    defaults        1 2

none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0

none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs  defaults        0 0

LABEL=/home1            /home                  ext3    defaults        1 2

none                    /proc                  proc    defaults        0 0

none                    /sys                    sysfs  defaults        0 0

LABEL=/var1            /var                    ext3    defaults        1 2

LABEL=SWAP-hda6        swap                    swap    defaults        0 0

/dev/hda1              /mnt/winh              ntfs    users,umask=0002,gid=users 0 0

/dev/hdc                /media/cdrecorder      auto    pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0

/dev/sde1              /media/WD_USB_2        vfat    pamconsole,exec,noauto,iocharset=utf8,managed 0 0

Thanks

Scott McNeely

add user and rw option.
so it would like,

/dev/sde1 /media/WD_USB_2 vfat pamconsole,exec,noauto,iocharset=utf8,managed,rw,user 0 0