access permission on mounted fat32 drive

[Yuandan Zhang]

Fred Morcos wrote:

>On 5/17/05, Kai Zhang <cmskzhan at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>I have mounted a fat32 drive in my home directory. But I can only read
>>it. i have write access when login as a root or su. tried chmod +777
>><directory name>, no joy.
>>Any suggestion?
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>i assume u edited fstab, in the <mount options> column, use
>"umask=000" (without the quotes)..
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you may change the line in fstab to let user or users to have a rwx , 
instead of root only

eg

/dev/hda5    /mnt/dos    vfat    users,noauto   0 0

then as  a root, do 'mount -a'