Changing Permissions on a FAT 32 Partition

[Bob The Nob]

Hi Guys,

 

I would like to know how to make my FAT 32 partition writable (and readable) by all users. I have made the partition but only root can write and when I change the permissions it just resets. The partiton in diskdrake has been set to allow all users the write to it.

 

Any Help???

[scarecrow]

There's a wee small textfile named fstab at your /etc directory... Simply edit it.

For help, open your konqueror and type on the addy bar

man:mount (also man:fstab should be useful knowledge).

Pay special attention to the uid and gid switches.

[tyme]

even editing fstab may not work, as mandrake will likely keep reseting it. what is your security level set at?

[pmpatrick]

There are lots of posts on how to do this. But here's the typical fstab entry for a windows FAT32 partition which is world read/write:

 

/dev/hdxx /mnt/win_x vfat umask=0,user,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,exec 0 0

 

You need to be root to edit fstab. The important stuff is what comes after "vfat"; those are the options. The "umask=0" is the key one.

[AussieJohn]

Good one pmpatrick. That is EXACTLY the line I edit /etc/fstab with everytime I do a reinstall. It is the very first thing I do after a reinstall. Mandriva does NOT change it back to something else, from my experience and I have been using it for over a year now and dozens and dozens of various Mandriva installs and reinstalls.

 

I have no other complicated means of achieving the same result and I work with the windows files as easily as from any other area of my account.

 

Cheers. John.