* P.T. (nevada) <nevada@wizard.com> [09-28-02 11:17]:
"L. Mark Stone" wrote:
My PC boots Windows 2000 and SuSE Linux 8.0. To share data files between the two operating systems, I use a separate FAT32 partition (/dev/hdf6).
When I boot Linux, I'd like this partition to be mounted automagically, so that all users on my home network (all of two machines) can access files on this partition.
I tried changing the parms in fstab to "auto, user" and "auto, users", and while this mounted the drive on boot, it made all the files read-only.
Any ideas on how I can do this? Here's fstab, if it helps:
/dev/hde3 / reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hde1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/dvd /media/dvd auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0 usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs noauto 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/sda1 /windows/C ntfs ro,noauto,user,umask=022 0 0 /dev/sda5 /windows/D ntfs ro,noauto,user,umask=022 0 0 /dev/hdf6 /windows/E vfat noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hde2 swap swap pri=42 0 0 /dev/hdf5 swap swap pri=42 0 0
You could try adding "rw" (without ") before auto. I am using 7.3 and I know that on bootup my vfat windows drives are read only. I don't know why it does this. If I unmount and then mount again as user, then I have rw on those drives.
Mine are as follows and I can r/w w/o a problem (SuSE 7.3): /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows/C vfat auto,user,uid=501 0 2 /dev/hda5 /mnt/windows/D vfat auto,user,uid=501 0 2 Also, please reformat & trim unnecessary materal from your posts. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org