mounting usb rw

[Avi Greenbury]

jack wallen wrote:
> i have googled and googled until my eyes are strained...i have a memorex 
> usb mp3 player that mounts just fine in 7.10. only problem is i can only 
> get it to mount ro. i have tried everything and can not get it to mount 
> rw.  my entry in fstab is:
>
> /dev/sdb1       /media/mp3      auto    rw,user,noauto          0 0
>
>   
<snip>
> any ideas?
>   

What're the permissions/owner on /media/mp3 when it's unmounted? AIUI, 
vfat volumes automatically inherit the owner and permissions of the dir 
under which they're mounted.

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Avi.