writing to FAT32 3110

In a message on 6 Mar 2005 12:38:09 -0800, wrote :

It should default as read-write, since you did not specify '-r'.

Question:

I'm buttuming you mounted it as root -- mount requires this, unless there is a fstab entry telling otherwise (see below). Are you also trying to write it as root or as a non-priv. user? What does mount say when you include the -v option?

Note the following sequence will give the behavior you are describing:

user% sudo mount -t vfatdev-fd0mnt-floppy Pbuttword: user% cp .loginmnt-floppy-login.txt Permission denied user%

Compare to:

user% sudo mount -t vfat -o uid=user,gid=userdev-fd0mnt-floppy Pbuttword: user% cp .loginmnt-floppy-login.txt user%

Or:

user% sudo mount -t vfat -o umask=000dev-fd0mnt-floppy Pbuttword: user% cp .loginmnt-floppy-login.txt user%

May have also been caused by pushing the floppy eject button prematurely.

buttuming thatdev-hda1 (what isdev-hda0?) is a FAT file system it should work fine for writing, again buttuming you have the ownership (uid=, gid=) and umask= settings correct.

It makes things generally easier and means you don't have to remember and type lots of CLI parameters (correctly). It also allows non-priv. users to mount the device (the 'users' option).

I would avoid it. If you selected the wrong size, you could seriously trash the file system.