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Miscellaneous => Technical Support => Topic started by: Annorax on 25 March 2006, 18:12

Title: Debian hates my vfat partitions
Post by: Annorax on 25 March 2006, 18:12

I'm trying to set up Debian to allow read and write access to both my vfat partitions so that I can share certain data files between my Windows 98 and Debian setups. For some reason, Debian restricts non-root users to read-only access on the vfat partitions. Nothing I've found so far can fix this little problem. What could be causing it, and how can I fix it?

Quote from: fstab

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
#            
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
/dev/hda6       /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
/dev/hda5       none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/hdc        /media/cdrom0   iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0       0
/dev/hdd        /media/cdrom1   iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0       0
/dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0
/dev/hda7       /media/shared   vfat    defaults,auto 0       0
/dev/hda1       /media/windows  vfat    defaults,auto 0       0

Title: Re: Debian hates my vfat partitions
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 25 March 2006, 18:25

I don't know but here's mine from my Ubuntu install:

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# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
#            
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
/dev/hda1       /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
/dev/hda5       none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/hdc        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0       0
/dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0
/dev/hda4 /mnt/windows ntfs    gid=100,umask=002,noexec,nosuid   0   0
/dev/hda3 /mnt/dos vfat    gid=100,umask=002,noexec,nosuid   0   0

Title: Re: Debian hates my vfat partitions
Post by: Annorax on 25 March 2006, 19:27

That didn't work. :(

Title: Re: Debian hates my vfat partitions
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 25 March 2006, 19:31

Just an idea but have you tried changing the permissions on the /media/windows directory?

Title: Re: Debian hates my vfat partitions
Post by: solemnwarning on 26 March 2006, 00:23

FAT32 has no permissions so chmod and chown do nothing, just add the following to the mount options section of each FAT32:

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,uid=your_user_id,gid=your_group_id

Title: Re: Debian hates my vfat partitions
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 26 March 2006, 00:32

The /media/windows he's mounting it to on his UNIX drive does though.

Title: Re: Debian hates my vfat partitions
Post by: solemnwarning on 26 March 2006, 03:01

Quote from: Aloone_Jonez

The /media/windows he's mounting it to on his UNIX drive does though.

But chmod/chown wont give him write access :)

Title: Re: Debian hates my vfat partitions
Post by: KernelPanic on 26 March 2006, 15:33

Change defaults,auto to rw,umask=0. Then remount the fat partition.

Title: Re: Debian hates my vfat partitions
Post by: Annorax on 26 March 2006, 15:56

Quote from: KernelPanic

Change defaults,auto to rw,umask=0. Then remount the fat partition.

This worked. Thanks.