need Help with Fstab

[killerasp]

How do i edit my fstab to mount a fat32 HD and give each user write acesss. I tried fooling around with it but nothing works

[RageAHolic]

/dev/hdxx /mount/point vfat defaults,user,rw

That should do it...

[bdg1983]

And there's also the NHF on the subject located here (http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/misc/winhd.html).

[bdg1983]

I haven't checked, but was there nothing in 'man fstab' that would of helped?

[killerasp]

editing it they way you told me did not work
i see cant write to it. Is there anyway to do it? i also tried NHF, and it didint work

[RageAHolic]

The word on the street is that (while unmounted) you need to give rw permission to the mount point (directory).

chmod 666 /mount/point

Maybe give that a try...

[ 29 March 2001: Message edited by: RageAHolic ]

[ 29 March 2001: Message edited by: RageAHolic ]

[Molecule Man]

You might now need to change the permissions on all the directories, that one bit me once.

[killerasp]

when you use chmod 666 /mnt, it does give write access, but it goes back after you mount it

[RageAHolic]

I would create a mount point that is a sub directory of /mnt.

mkdir /mnt/vfat or something like that...you don't even have to limit it to a sub directory of /mnt. You could create a sub directory of / called vfat and use that as your mount point.

...then chmod666 the directory upon which you will be mounting the vfat partition.

[ 29 March 2001: Message edited by: RageAHolic ]

[MBMarduk]

here's my old SuSE fstab:

/dev/hda8 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda3 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda7 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2

#/dev/hdd /cdrom auto ro,noauto,users,exec 0 0

/dev/fd0 /floppy auto noauto,users 0 0

none /proc proc defaults 0 0
# End of YaST-generated fstab lines, below were added by Mike.
/dev/hda1 /winC vfat noauto,users 0 0 #<--HERE!
/dev/hda5 /winD vfat noauto,users 0 0 #<--HERE!
#/dev/hda6 /winE vfat noauto,users 0 0 #<--HERE!
/dev/scd1 /cdrom auto ro,noauto,users,exec 0 0
/dev/scd0 /cdrw auto ro,noauto,users,exec 0 0

Hope that helps...
-Mike

[bdg1983]

There's also the FAQ's

here
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/cgi-bin/faq/faqw.py?req=all#6.3

here
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/cgi-bin/faq/faqw.py?req=all#6.4

and here.
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/cgi-bin/faq/faqw.py?req=all#10.1

Something has to work.