fstab partition automounted but can't write to it [SOLVED]

[PeguinMints]

After searching on the forums I managed to automount a partition.
This guide http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=22093 resulted in a hang on boot so I edited the fstab file with

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/dev/sdaxx /home/user/sharedfat   vfat   rw,user   0   0

The partition mounts but it's locked. I can read it but however I play with the persmissions I can't write to it.


Anyone know what I'm missing??

[altair4]

Your partition will mount with with root as owner and permissions of 755. Root has read/write permissions everyone else has only read permissions. If you are the only user take posession of the mounted partition and remove the options that make no sense:

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/dev/sdaxx /home/user/sharedfat   vfat   defaults,uid=1000   0   0

I'm assuming your uid is 1000. TO find out run the following command:

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id

If you have multiple local users then make permissions available to all:

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/dev/sdaxx /home/user/sharedfat   vfat   defaults,umask=000   0   0

Then unmount the partition:

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sudo umount /home/user/sharedfat

And then run the following command that will test for errors and if there are none mount the partition without requiring a reboot:

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sudo mount -a

[PeguinMints]

Awesome that worked like a charm.
I've reading about fstab http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html but it makes no mention of the uid you used.
Could you post a link to the site you used for my future reference.

[altair4]

You're not going to like this but most of what you need is already on your system:

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man mount

The link you gave is one of the more coherent references to fstab but it's very Linux filesystem centric and somewhat outdated. I prefer the "template" approach that Fred uses in his HowTo, it just needs updating:

/dev/sdxx /home/fred/Data vfat umask=0000,uid=1000,gid=1000,auto,rw,users 0 0

** The current approach to specifying the device name is to use either UUID or LABEL. You would find both by executing this command:

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sudo blkid -c /dev/null

** rw and auto are in the defaults so there really is no reason to explicitly state them as long as some option is used - although I prefer to use the option "defaults".
** Never understood why Fred used the "users" option since the last thing you want is for any old user to unmount the partition ( and the "user" options makes no sense either since the only user present when the system executes fstab is root ).

So a modern fstab template would look something like this for FAT32:

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UUID=C4DB-C1B0 /media/WinE vfat defaults,utf8,uid=1000,umask=000 0 2

Even here there is some redundancy. "umask=000" will make it accessible to every local user including whoever is "uid=1000" so you really don't need both options. I like to keep it in so that I can send something to the trash without getting an error message and so that I can use Nautilus / Nemo to create a samba share. The utf8 option is for character encoding and to tell you the truth I think it happens by default now - sometimes I add these things out of habit.

And by manipulating uid, gid ( group name or id ), and umask you pretty much have complete control over who can access the partition and with what privileges.

[dodgefan]

***EDIT*** never mind, changed it to

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/dev/md0 /raid1 ext4 defaults 0 0

and just changed the permissions on the mount point itself...duh
***EDIT***

sorry to bring this thread back up but im having this same issue

i have a raid 1 array at /dev/md0 and im trying to mount it at /raid1, so in my fstab i have

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/dev/md0 /raid1 ext4 defaults 0 2

and it will mount fine, but i cant write to it

so if i change it to something like this (gid 1050 is the group i made to access this mount point)

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/dev/md0 /raid1 ext4 gid=1050,umask=000,auto,rw 0 2

i get an error that says Unrecognized mount option "gid=1050" or missing value (read at dmesg | tail)

how do i get it to mount and have rw access for all my local users?