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I have installed sabayon Linux on my lappy...i have a fat32 drive of around 80 gb which has my important data...now i have mounted it as /media/data...as a standard user...i ...
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    Question Mounting a fat32 drive in read write mode on sabayon

    I have installed sabayon Linux on my lappy...i have a fat32 drive of around 80 gb which has my important data...now i have mounted it as /media/data...as a standard user...i have only read access...and as root read and write mode...i want 2 assign write access to the standard user...the DE is KDE...plz help me...i am a newbie...so plz reply with a step by step procedure...Thanks...
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    Hi and Welcome !

    Set umask value to zero for universal access.
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mount -t vfat  /dev/partition mount_point  -o defaults,umask=0
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    Thank you very very much dude...u are awesome...that thing worked...one more query...also i dont have the write access to my usb hard disk...so is the same command whih i shud use...
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    also i have posted a query in gentoo linux..i will repeat it...the video player simply exits when i play any kind of video...i installed all codecs again...players...only vlc works...what shud i do...Distro same sabayon Linux 3.5 r2...
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    Glad to help you !

    What the filesystem of USB disk's partitions? Linux doesn't support NTFS write access out of box and you have to install ntfs-3g package to enable it.
    For FAT32 partitions, command is same.

    also i have posted a query in gentoo linux..i will repeat it...the video player simply exits when i play any kind of video...i installed all codecs again...players...only vlc works...what shud i do...Distro same sabayon Linux 3.5 r2...
    I will check that thread.
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    thanks dude for the reply...the filesystem is fat32 aks vfat...and mount point is /media/AKS plz have a look...i am stuck coz of only 1 player...also are u a BSD user...shud i learn BSD...or stick to Linux...its been alsmost a year i was using ubuntu....now m tired and want a switch...SAbayon is really gr8...what say???Thanks for reply...
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    dude...how to make this change permanent..i have 2 every time give this command after i reboot...shall i edit my fstab with this data???
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    Add this code in /etc/fstab file :
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    /dev/partition mount_point     vfat    defaults,umask=0 0 0
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