This is what I have in in fstab file for mounting a fat32 partition.  It
will not work for NTFS partion

vfat    umask=0,rw,quiet1 3


david

On Sat, 22 Feb 2003, Michael Schwendt wrote:

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> On 22 Feb 2003 13:50:16 +0100, Kleiner Hampel wrote:
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> > i have a FAT32 partition which i want to make writeable to all users on> > my 
> > system.
> > 
> > 
> > i have written the following line in my /etc/fstab:
> > 
> > /dev/hdb4 /vfat-part  vfat defaults,user,mode=777 0 0
> > 
> > But this doesn't work, because FAT32 doesn't know user rights.
> > 
> > What can i do, if i want to mount my FAT32 partition writeable to all
> > users on startup?
> 
> Is "mode=" a valid mount option for vfat? I don't think so. 
> But "umask=" is. Hence I recommend you use "umask=0000".
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