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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