how to mount partitions?

[mohinish.rao]

hey i have openSUSE 10.2 and i mount my vfat drive using the command mount -t vfat /dev/hdc* /usr/local
but i am only geettin read permissions and not write permission...
can nebody tell me the command or way to have write permission too ???

[gogalthorp]

You should install ntfs-3g and fuse to support ntfs file system.

[devils casper]

In which filesystem partitions are formatted? vfat is for FAT32 filesystem and all Linux Distros support FAT32 read/write access out of box.

for NTFS, you should install ntfs-3g as suggested by gogalthorp.

mount -t vfat /dev/hdc* /usr/local

are you literally typing * instead of partition number in mount command?
Correct command is

mount -t  /dev/<partition>  <mount_point> <filesystem> defaults,umask=0 0 0

umask=0 enables default access to all users.