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hi. i have a vfat partition for files that is shared by a windows partition and fedora 7. i already have edited fstab to somehow automount that partition. however, i ...
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    cannot write on mounted partition

    hi.
    i have a vfat partition for files that is shared by a windows partition and fedora 7.
    i already have edited fstab to somehow automount that partition. however, i still mount it every time. and after i mount it, i cannot write on the partition (copying files from my home directory).

    here is cat output of fstab:

    LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
    LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
    tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
    devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
    sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
    proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
    /dev/sda5 swap swap defaults 0 0

    /dev/sda2 /media/sharedfat vfat default,users,rw 0 0


    am i missing something?
    i know defaults should be rw. but its no help. so i included rw in the options.
    anyway, it still wont let me copy to it.

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    It looks like you might have some syntax errors. If you really want to use the defaults, then that field should be defaults and not default, as you have it. However, defaults includes nouser which means only root can mount it. Is that how you want it? If so, then you should remove the users field. If you want it so that regular users can mount the partition then it should be user and not users.

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    thanks man! its working now. however i just found out that i cant drag and drop items between directories. i have to click left trigger mouse and then use the "move to" option. im using fedora7 and kde, is that really how it works or is that a bug?

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