External hardrive mounts but is read only [SOLVED]

[Qysik]

Hi,

I have an external hardrive (formatted in fat) hooked up to my computer that mounts fine but doesn't have write permissions.

My fstab looks like this:

"UUID=9E60-95BA /mnt/big vfat user,umask=022,utf8,flush,auto 0 0"

I don't really know what I need to change here?

[altair4]

user,umask=022

"user" in fstab without a "noauto" will not do what you think it will do because the only "user" at the time fstab is executed is root.
A "umask=022" will turn off write to group and everyone other than owner

So change umask to:

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umask=000

[Qysik]

Ahh brilliant thats sorted it out now,

Thanks a lot