mounting FAT with write permission for users

[Garyu]

*sigh*

I cannot get my FAT32 mount in r/w mode for other users than root. It is quite annoying to have to sudo every time I want to write a file to the common drive I have created for windows/linux sharing of files.

In fstab it originally said "defaults" only for the vfat options. I have tried with "uid=1000,gid=1000" and "umask=000" and "fmask=777,dmask=777" and probably a bunch of other things I stumbled across when googling for a solution, but what works for everyone else just doesn't seem to work for me... ](*,)

And yes, I have run "mount -a" after each change in fstab, and I actually noticed a difference, because my "FTP" drive now shows under "Computer" instead of just being mounted as "/FTP". But that doesn't help me much.

I WANT TO WRITE WITHOUT BEING ROOT!!!!
please help?



From fdisk -l:
/dev/hda1 * 1 956 7679038+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/hda2 11747 24321 101008687+ 5 Utökad
/dev/hda3 957 7035 48829567+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 7036 11746 37841107+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda5 12164 24321 97659135 b W95 FAT32
/dev/hda6 11951 12162 1702827 82 Linux växling / Solaris/dev/hda7 11747 11950 1638567 82 Linux växling / Solaris


From fstab:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda3 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda5 /FTP vfat rw,auto,user,exec,umask=000 0 2
/dev/hda6 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0

[Chris Cromer]

/dev/hda5 /FTP vfat rw,auto,umask=000 0 0

should do it. And I know for a fact it works because I use it myself. Although my drive is FAT32 if it matters.

Please make sure that /FTP exists before you put this into fstab and try to mount it. Otherwise it won't work.

Oh and I had to reboot before it would actually work for me. No matter how many times I tried using the mount command it didn't show the changes till I rebooted.

I hope this helps you out.

[felipe]

i thought "mount" -a was useless if you don't use "umount" first :)

try this to test your settings without having to edit fstab each time:

[CODE]
mount -o remount,users,rw,<any comma separated options> /dev/hda5
[CODE]

i can write to my vfat partition, and yes, umask=000 is the correct value to achieve that

have fun

[Chris Cromer]

Yeah I had tried umount, but I kept getting messages saying the partition was busy and wouldn't let me umount it.

[felipe]

"the partition is busy" means you are occupying it with a shell or with nautilus etc...

close all of your windows, or ever reboot, and then try again

[jamesrw]

i have my mount set to noauto because it mounts as root otherwise. works fine for me. that may depend if the mount point is under your home directory or not.

[Corbelius]

/dev/hda5 /FTP vfat rw,auto,user,exec,umask=000 0 2


Change /ftp with /mnt/ftp and try again.

[d0nk]

My setup allows for users to read/write. I have the drive owned by a group i made called "shared", and anyone in "shared" is able to write to it. It is mounted by root, but owned by root:shared.

here's the line from my fstab:
/dev/hda4 /shared vfat user,quiet,rw,noatime,gid=1001,umask=002 0 0