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Please help me I'm despering I have two fat32 partition there are mounted,but I can't used them with normal user.I can't even listen muzic without root privigles. Help pls....
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  1. 02-03-2005 #1
    strycnine
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    fat32 partition

    Please help me I'm despering I have two fat32 partition there are mounted,but I can't used them with normal user.I can't even listen muzic without root privigles.
    Help pls.
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    post your output
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    df -h
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    http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/andrewbarber/tutorial.htm
    take a look at that (towards the bottom)
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    This doesn't helped me.Maybe you didn't understand.
    I just whant to have acces to fat32 with a normal user.
    I triyed chmod 777 /c nothing changed.
    I'm using slackware 10
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    Quote Originally Posted by strycnine
    This doesn't helped me.Maybe you didn't understand.
    I just whant to have acces to fat32 with a normal user.
    I triyed chmod 777 /c nothing changed.
    I'm using slackware 10
    Quote Originally Posted by the_guy_dressed_in_black
    http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/andrewbarber/tutorial.htm
    the problem is in your /etc/fstab
    http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/andrewbarber/mount.htm
    should help you. Now, only root has "right" to it. Need to allow other users
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    in your /etc/fstab simply add this in the options ",users"
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    yeah i ment go to mount.htm
    i copyed the wrong link....silly me l0ol
    though you could have got there...
    and thats why i said mainly down the bottom which is the file you need to edit and what to edit it to...................
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    Quote Originally Posted by the_guy_dressed_in_black
    yeah i ment go to mount.htm
    i copyed the wrong link....silly me l0ol
    though you could have got there...
    and thats why i said mainly down the bottom which is the file you need to edit and what to edit it to...................
    i didn't mean it like that. I was re-emphasising what you posted.
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    It's working.
    Thanks man in black
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  10. 02-04-2005 #10
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    no problem
    only here to help like everybody else
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