how to solve readonly in vfat partion

[AHAROON111]

hi ihave second hard drive i wanted to make auto mount in start up and want to make it read and write i have to creat and change files there i opened disk&filesystem in system setting and edit all partitions of that hd and checked on writeable and enable at startup and restarted the system it mounted ok but when i edit *.xls with openoffice i got message document is read only. i checked fstab here what it have

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# Entry for /dev/sda3 :
UUID=b96cf92e-5758-4959-9bf9-4fe05564c0cd / ext3 nouser,defaults,errors=remount-ro,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 1
# Entry for /dev/ !! UNKNOW DEVICE !! :
UUID=9AECC1EFECC1C5AB /media/sda1 ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 1
# Entry for /dev/sda2 :
UUID=88ed7e6a-c849-42a7-a9e1-4213e295d84f none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto user,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/Server\040D ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /media/sdb1 auto nouser,atime,auto,rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
/dev/sdb5 /media/sdb5 auto nouser,atime,auto,rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
/dev/sdb6 /media/sdb6 auto nouser,atime,auto,rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
/dev/sdb7 /media/sdb7 auto nouser,atime,auto,rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/sda1 auto nouser,atime,auto,rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0

now what i have to do i checked the ntfs partition it worked ok

[cantab]

Re: how to solve readonly in vfat partion

I can't see any entries for vfat partitions there. But the usual cause of being unable to write to them is to do with the 'umask'. Basically because vfat doesn't have any file ownership or permissions, linux defaults to considering all files and directories owned by root and not writable by anyone else. You need to change that, but since there's no entry for the partition in the fstab, I'm not sure how.

[Fintan]

Re: how to solve readonly in vfat partion

Here the pertenant line for my vfat read/writables/executables:

/dev/sda5 /Data vfat utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1

I hope that points you in the right direction

[AHAROON111]

Re: how to solve readonly in vfat partion

thanks man i changed fstab as u said it works fine now but i want to ask is this partitions wil be auti mount at startup??

[Fintan]

Re: how to solve readonly in vfat partion

Good Glad to be of help.
They do on mine.

[AHAROON111]

Re: how to solve readonly in vfat partion

thank u fintan u r great man

[cantab]

Re: how to solve readonly in vfat partion

If you want to NOT mount a partition at boot, add 'noauto' to the options (the list of things seperated by commas - note there need to be NO SPACES there). Auto is the default.