Help with FAT 32 mounting partitions

[Rich Rudnick]

Bob Cortez wrote:
> I have a dual boot (XP and Gutsy)  I want to be able to read write in
> both OS to two FAT 32 partitions.  They will also be shared drives on
> our network.
> 
> Results from fdisk -l
> 
> /dev/sda4            2676        9729    56661255    b  W95 FAT32
> /dev/sdb1               1        9729    78148161    b  W95 FAT32
> 
> Lines in /etc/fstab
> 
> # /dev/sda4
> UUID=F8F2-2027  /disk1          vfat    defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46
> 0       1
> # /dev/sdb1
> UUID=FC2C-3A48  /disk2          vfat    defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46
> 0       1
> 

I'm assuming you can read these as root, but not as your user. You
should be sure you are in group plugdev , that's what gid=46 is pointing at.