problem in mounting vfat drives in read/write mode

[tnlg102]

Hi there,

I have two vfat drives mounted on my linux machine. I have the read/write permission for those drives only when i log in as the root, not when i log in as a normal user. I have given the user and rw options in fstab file, but i dont get the read/write permissions. All you linux pros out there please help me. My fstab file looks like this

LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/hda1 /drivec vfat auto,users,exec,dev,suid,rw,sync 0 0
/dev/hda2 /drived vfat auto,users,exec,dev,suid,rw,sync 0 0

[AndrewB]

i am sure there is a umask setting
google or man it
i am not on a linux pc, i am at colleg, but i belive that is the problem
it is like

umask=**** where *** is a number

[tnlg102]

i am sure there is a umask setting
google or man it
i am not on a linux pc, i am at colleg, but i belive that is the problem
it is like

umask=**** where *** is a number

Sorry, i have no idea what you are talking about. What is umask?

[drakebasher]

I have given the user and rw options in fstab file, but i dont get the read/write permissions.

That's because the "user" who mounted the drive is root. What if you replace the 'user,rw' with 'defaults' like your Linux drives? I think that will fix it.

[tnlg102]

I have given the user and rw options in fstab file, but i dont get the read/write permissions.

That's because the "user" who mounted the drive is root. What if you replace the 'user,rw' with 'defaults' like your Linux drives? I think that will fix it.

Sorry that did not help. Actually i used to have default options earlier, but i couldnt get r/w permissions that is why i changed them. Just to be sure i changed the options back to default but it did not work. Please help!

[smolloy]

Try adding umask=0002 to the mount options.

[drakebasher]

zer0ed77 got his to work from this post using these options: vfat user,rw,owner,umask=000 0 0

[tnlg102]

Thank you drakebasher, your suggestion worked.
Linux forums rocks

[devendra.meena]

# mkdir /mnt/FAT

# mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/FAT

This is solve your Problem