Mounted Fat32. But read only

skoda · 03-14-2015, 12:44 AM

Hello,

i mounted a fat32 partition located in my external 500GB USB Hard Disk to /mnt/fat32 using su root at shell.

then i see it is read only for my user account. the gnome file manager shows all the files and folders, but i cannot past or create anything.

so i #chmod 777 /mnt/fat32

but problem still remain same.

veerain · 03-14-2015, 01:03 AM

Check /etc/fstab options for /mnt/fat32.

It may be mounting it as ro.

Or may be using uid:gid set to root.

As fat32 file systems don't support uid/gid so they are set as global value for the entire filesystem to particular uid/gid.

And you can mount it with required options as root and see what happens.

John VV · 03-14-2015, 01:50 AM

Code:

chmod 777 /mnt/fat32

will have no effect
fat has no understanding of file permissions

manually mount it with USER " RW "
or add an entry into fstab to mount it a user "rw"
see:

Code:

man fstab 
--- and ---
man mount

ps
NEVER !!!! chmod 777 files

Head_on_a_Stick · 03-14-2015, 05:34 AM

Have you tried:

Code:

# mount -o rw /dev/sd<x><y> /mnt/fat32

Post your /etc/fstab

skoda · 07-21-2015, 10:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Head_on_a_Stick

Have you tried:

Code:

# mount -o rw /dev/sd<x><y> /mnt/fat32

Post your /etc/fstab

Hi guys,
very sorry for late reply.

Code:

mount -o rw /dev/sdc5 /mnt/massfat32/

worked charm!!