Edit fstab to write to fat drive

AGazzaz · 01-03-2008, 04:05 PM

Hello,
I always have a problem with fstab file when installing a new distro
my current fstab file

Code:

#/dev/sda5 / reiserfs notail,noatime,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/sda5 / reiserfs defaults 1 1
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto umask=0022,users,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0
/dev/sda7 /mnt/c vfat defaults 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sda6 swap swap defaults 0 0

How can I write to this drive as a normal user?

jailbait · 01-03-2008, 04:09 PM

"How can I write to this drive as a normal user?"

Add user to the fstab line:

/dev/sda7 /mnt/c vfat defaults,user 0 0

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Steve Stites

AGazzaz · 01-03-2008, 04:14 PM

Thank you very much for your quick help.
{very shy}

*edit* it is not working I still can not write to the drive as root

Brian1 · 01-03-2008, 05:07 PM

Possible users is not a default in Mandriva. Possible it is user.
Other than that use the option umask=000

Brian

michaelk · 01-03-2008, 08:41 PM

/dev/sda7 /mnt/c vfat umask=000 0 0

user/users option allows an ordinary user to mount/unmount a filesystem. Check the mount man pages for option details.

AGazzaz · 01-07-2008, 02:31 PM

Thank you michaelk I can now write to the fat32 drive
(sorry for late feedback)