mount fstab problem

[Chris H]

Slack 10.0

I have a vfat partition. fstab has

/dev/hdb3 /mnt/music vfat auto,user,rw 1 0

It mounts at boot but will only allow root access. If root unounts and then user mounts all is well.

If I change to

/dev/hdb3 /mnt/music vfat noauto,user,rw 1 0

then user can mount quite happily and all is well.

Any thoughts on why the auto mount selector stops me accessing the partition?

[aysiu]

Try this in your /etc/fstab:

/dev/hdb3       /mnt/music  vfat    iocharset=utf8,umask=000   0       0

[Chris H]

What gives with the iocharset option?

[drakebasher]

I would try changing 'user' to 'users' and I think I'd try just using 'defaults' (does that not work with vfat?). As far as "thoughts on why the auto mount selector stops me accessing the partition?": can't help there, I just randomly try stuff 'til it works....

[aysiu]

What gives with the iocharset option? :?:

I got it from here:

http://ubuntuguide.org/#automountfat

I followed those instructions, and it worked, so I'm not going to complain about the iocharset. I don't see why it wouldn't work for Slackware. /etc/fstabs shouldn't be distro-specific, as far as I know.

[googled first]

"and I think I'd try just using 'defaults' (does that not work with vfat?)"

Apparently;
/dev/hda1 /fat-c vfat defaults 1 0
Works for me!

[aysiu]

For more on fstab, check this out:

http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html

[Chris H]

Ta all for the info and suggestions. I think I will leave it as noauto as it's working and I'm quite happy manually mounting devices.

Cheers.

[godofgamblers]

I have mounted linux fedora onto winxp and also edited fstab so that it starts up fine... i can see the windows drive and its folder content, however when i am in linux it does not allow me to write or change any of the files in the newly created folder... i have tried changing permissions in the user(with root rights) and root accounts but it still does not allow the permissions to be changed.

The only way around this prob is if i log into the root account and drag folders around but this is a hassle...there must be a simpler way.

How can I save files in the shared folder i have created? has it got anything to do with fstab?
Please help..as this is getting frustrating

[devils casper]

its very simple......
log in as 'root' and open /etc/fstab file...
change value of umask=0 for all the windows partitions listed in fstab...
a standard line for FAT32 windows partition is ...

/dev/hdx /media/mount_point vfat rw,defaults,umask=0 0 0

here x is partition number......
now all users will have read/write permissions in Windows FAT32 partitions.




casper