Mounting Fat32

Avraham Hanadari rufus at hanadari.net
Sat Apr 15 15:56:19 UTC 2006


Alan McKinnon wrote:

> 
> Your fat partitions are probably mounted read-only. I don't have a 
> working Ubuntu handy to check the procedure, but as a first step see 
> if there's a read-write/read-only option in the gui tool to configure 
> mount points. If not, you need to edit the /etc/fstab file. In a 
> terminal:
> 
> sudo gedit /etc/fstab
> 
> Look for the lines listing your fat partitions in column 1. If column 
> 4 contains "ro" in the list, change it to "rw", save and quit. Then 
> umount and mount those partitions to have the changes take effect.
> 

Thanks.

There was no ro, but defaults. I replaced that with rw. I just wonder if 
there should be more in that column.

Avraham




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