Basically, I have it set up to where I have all my partitions available in /mnt/ But when I try and save on them with my user account, it says that its read only, and I cant. So I would like to know how I can make it so I have the power to save on these with a user account. Thanks

from a nub to another nub, I know only rewt has r-w-rw permissions, users aren't allowed to do all the nifty things rewt can...

So are you saying that I wont ever be able to get user access to it?

...are you on a network? can't you get rewt access? even if only for a while? Now that I think of it, when you are rewt you can change the permissions...

Kristic: can you please show the contents of your /etc/fstab file here...

Most likely u just need one simple modufication for your particular mount point by changing owner to user and setting the rw (read-write) flag.

LABEL=/ / ext2 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0


I added 2 more entries that have access to my other two drives, but they appear to not be here

Now this is odd, I used to have access to my D: and H: drives, that were located in my /mnt file. The files to access those drives are still there, but the data within them is not. All I have done since the last time I gain access to them is restart and used up2date

OK, I've added hdb1 to mount to the /mnt/Music Folder and hdb5 to mount to the /mnt/Music2 folder. Now how do I get those to stay mounted so when I reboot, they still are mounted. And how do I get it so I can write to them using my user account?

about the first question: write entries in the fstab. you have to know the type of file system though. if they by any chance ntfs, you can't write to them at all.

So would they look like this then?:

LABEL=/ / ext2 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm
Music /mnt/Music fat32 defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0

you need entries for /dev/hdb1 and /dev/hdb5 if you want them mounted automatically.
So instead of the Music line, you'll have something like
/dev/hdb1 /Music vfat quiet,iocharset=utf8,umask=0 0 0

You'll have to figure out the right iocharset. I think utf8 is fine but if you want to access it from windows, you might want a different iocharset. Just look around in the forum. There are a bunch of people who've posted their fstabs. You can probably steal the right entries from them.

And that'll give a user read/write access too?

it should. Those are entries I have in my fstab and everyone has rad/write access to the vfat partitions.

Doesnt work

When I retsrt, I get a failed thing, saying that its either wrong or too many mounts.

Here is my fstab again:

LABEL=/ / ext2 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/Music vfat quiet,iocharset=iso8859,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hdb5 /mnt/Music2 vfat quiet,iocharset=iso8859,umask=0 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0

you need to specify the codepage for iso8859. Try
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/Music vfat quiet,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
correspondingly for the other partition.

After you edit the fstab just do as root
mount -a
this should mount everything in the fstab.