access permission on mounted fat32 drive

[Yuandan Zhang]

Kai Zhang wrote:

>appended this line to fstab now, still no joy
>/dev/sda5      /mnt/dos    vfat    auto,owner,rw,umask=0000 0 0
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at boot the default owner is root.
just try this, forget umask,

/dev/sda5      /mnt/dos    vfat    noauto,users,rw 0 0


> log in as myself now and 
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>>cd /mnt/dos
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>bash: cd: /mnt/dos: Permission Denied
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>>ls -l
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>d-----------  4 root users 16384 1970-01-01 01:00 dos
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>Pretty weird!
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