Mounting a fat32 partition...

[Phichai Phuechmongkol]

On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 18:19 -0400, chip wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 05:10 +0700, pp wrote:
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> > > Yes,just put the correct type -vfat - in /etc/fstab  like this :
> > >  
> > >  (as in my computer  hda5 is a fat32 fs) 
> > >  
> > >  # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
> > >  
> > >  /dev/hda5         /mnt/k                   vfat        defaults            
> > >      0               0
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> > 
> Huh, wierd thing though...
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> I can now mount it, but I can't access any of the files. I double-click
> them, and nothing happens. If I right-click them, they disappear.
> 
> Strange...

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I understand that it may cause by the mount option and/or you did not
open the nautilus file manager with the root privilege. Under the
default security of Ubuntu Linux system,you need to be root to
read&write to other mount partition or you need to be root to 
change the mount option and/or the owner/group of such mount partition.
It's a good default security system, not a strange things.
You may do as follow :

1.You need to mount a partition with the option defaults or rw
(read&write) as mentioned above.
2.open terminal and then su to be root : # su
3.from the root terminal start nautilus : # nautilus