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Debian hates my vfat partitions
			Annorax:
			
			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
--- End quote ---
		
			Aloone_Jonez:
			
			I don't know but here's mine from my Ubuntu install:
--- Code:  ---# /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
--- End code ---
		
			Annorax:
			
			That didn't work. :(
		
			Aloone_Jonez:
			
			Just an idea but have you tried changing the permissions on the /media/windows directory?
		
			solemnwarning:
			
			FAT32 has no permissions so chmod and chown do nothing, just add the following to the mount options section of each FAT32:
--- Code:  ---,uid=your_user_id,gid=your_group_id
--- End code ---
		
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