Unable to write files to my FAT32 Partition.

[da420]

I have a 100GB FAT partition on my hard drive, and running openSuSe on my main partition. But, for some reason I cannot save files to it.

Can someone please help me out?

Thank you,

Dustin.

My etc/fstab if it helps:

/dev/sda2            /                    ext3       acl,user_xattr        1 1
/dev/sda1            swap                 swap       defaults              0 0
proc                 /proc                proc       defaults              0 0
sysfs                /sys                 sysfs      noauto                0 0
debugfs              /sys/kernel/debug    debugfs    noauto                0 0
usbfs                /proc/bus/usb        usbfs      noauto                0 0
devpts               /dev/pts             devpts     mode=0620,gid=5       0 0
/dev/fd0             /media/floppy        auto       noauto,user,sync      0 0
/dev/sda4            /audio               vfat       user,users,gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0

[devils casper]

post the output of fdisk -l command here.







Casper

[da420]

Thank you for your quick response Casper. Here is the output of that command.

linux-4vdx:~ # fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hdb: 122.9 GB, 122942324736 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 238216 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System

Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1         262     2104483+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2   *         263       13191   103852192+  83  Linux
/dev/sda4           13192       26246   104864287+   c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)

[devils casper]

are you able to save files after logging in as 'root'?
edit '/dev/sda4 ....' line in /etc/fstab file.

/dev/sda4   /audio  vfat  defaults,umask=0 0 0

save file and execute 'mount -a' command.






Casper

[da420]

It saved, but it still doesn't give me permissions to save anything there.

[devils casper]

are you able to save files after logging in as 'root'?







Casper

[da420]

Yes, I am able to in Root.

[devils casper]

/dev/sda4   /audio  vfat  defaults,umask=0 0 0

that code should enable write access for normal users. check /etc/fstab file for typos.
log in as normal user and try this

su -
mkdir /audio1
mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /audio1 -o defaults,umask=0
exit
mkdir /audio1/temp

dose it allow normal user to create folder?





Casper

[da420]

I got a permission denied error when typing those commands Casper.

Here is my fstab again... again, thanks for the reply...

/dev/sda2            /                    ext3       acl,user_xattr        1 1
/dev/sda1            swap                 swap       defaults              0 0
proc                 /proc                proc       defaults              0 0
sysfs                /sys                 sysfs      noauto                0 0
debugfs              /sys/kernel/debug    debugfs    noauto                0 0
usbfs                /proc/bus/usb        usbfs      noauto                0 0
devpts               /dev/pts             devpts     mode=0620,gid=5       0 0
/dev/fd0             /media/floppy        auto       noauto,user,sync      0 0
/dev/sda4   	     /audio               vfat	     defaults,umask=0      0 0

[devils casper]

I got a permission denied error when typing those commands

did you execute 'su -' first?