I have NO idea what would have caused this! When I am looged in as root, I can see my mounted FAT32 Media partition and all of the files and directories just fine. When I am logged in as a user, all the directories show up as unknown files?



Here is my /etc/fstab file:
/dev/hda2 /boot ext3 noauto,noatime 1 1
/dev/hda3 / ext3 noatime 0 0
/dev/hda6 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win98 vfat uid=500,gid=500,rw,auto 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/media vfat uid=500,gid=500,rw,auto 0 0

Ideas?

/dev/hda1 /mnt/win98 vfat uid=500,gid=500,rw,auto 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/media vfat uid=500,gid=500,rw,auto 0 0

Replace with

/dev/hda1 /mnt/win98 vfat rw,auto 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/media vfat rw,auto 0 0

Try now

No dice, still the same

I think you have to run the command
#mount -a
after makong changes to /etc/fstab, or reboot

I rebooted, changed were implemented. No dice. For good measure, I did it anyway, no dice.

*whimper*

oh please, it has my perfectly-legal-ready-to-listen-to MP3's on it.....

I would like to listen to "thin ice" by pink floyd now. But it is ripped using wma. So I need to get my mplayer working. BY the way nirvana kicks ass.

Ummm.......wrong thread.......

Sorry not tring to dilute your thread. You just mentioned not being able to access your music on your fat partiton, I was just relating to you I had a similar problem(not being able to play music from my fat partition). Nirvana kicks as was referring to your signature.

ahhh, Nirvana does rule

Try this:

/dev/hda5 /mnt/media vfat defaults,umask=000 0 0

if no luck try this:

/dev/hda5 /mnt/media vfat auto,rw,uid=500,umask=000 0 0

I got it, the fstab paramaters are a little different in Gentoo.

I *did* have fstab setup like so:

/dev/hda5 /mnt/media vfat gid=500,uid=500,rw,auto 0 0

Now I've done it like so:

/dev/hda5 /mnt/media vfat gid=users,uid=bigun,rw,auto 0 0

Just a minor adjustment, thanks guys!