Bob The Nob Posted August 13, 2005 Report Share Posted August 13, 2005 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??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted August 13, 2005 Report Share Posted August 13, 2005 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted August 14, 2005 Report Share Posted August 14, 2005 even editing fstab may not work, as mandrake will likely keep reseting it. what is your security level set at? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted August 14, 2005 Report Share Posted August 14, 2005 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJohn Posted August 15, 2005 Report Share Posted August 15, 2005 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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