Accessing vfat drives from FC4

[Randy Kelsoe]

Douglas Phillipson wrote:

> I'm dual booting a machine XP/FC4.  The user wants write access to the 
> Windows drive from FC4.  I can mount the drives just fine but as a 
> user I can't write to them.  I've converted the Windows drives to 
> Fat32. I'm mounting them via fstab as vfat with:
>
> /dev/hda1 /data1 defaults 0 0
>
> The mount point (/data1) is 777 but a Linux user has no write access 
> to them.  What am I doing wrong?  I need all users to have write 
> access...
>
> Thanks
>
> Doug P
>
Try unmounting the partition and changing your fstab entry to something 
like:
 
  /dev/hda1 /data1 vfat noauto,user 0 0

After a reboot, this partition will not be mounted automatically, but 
the user should be able to mount it with:

    mount /data1               (notice there is not /dev  file)

 and unmount it with:

    umount /data1

That user will then be the owner and can write to the partition.