On 20 Oct 2002, Franklin Maurer wrote:
I had to reinstall 8.1 due to a corruption in windows 2000 thanks to visual studio .net and a service pack install, and now my D: drive can't be mounted as a normal user.(.. the drive is fine, in windows and as root)
Here's the corresponding line from my own fstab: /dev/hda2 /dos vfat noauto,user,rw,uid=228,gid=100,umask=0 0 0 Check also that the mount point has mode 755; it's OK if it's owned by root. If the mode is 700 all kinds of mysterious stuff can happen. With those options in fstab, the non-root user can mount and dismount the vfat filesystem. James F. Carter Voice 310 825 2897 FAX 310 206 6673 UCLA-Mathnet; 6115 MSA; 405 Hilgard Ave.; Los Angeles, CA, USA 90095-1555 Email: jimc@math.ucla.edu http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc (q.v. for PGP key)