On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 12:59:15PM -0800, maxim wexler wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I have a fat32 partition on another drive /dev/hda5
> which is listed in /etc/fstab like this:
> 
> /dev/hda5  /home/blissfix/fat vfat auto,user o o
> 

my guess is the following: you are auto-mounting it, no? So in effect
it will be mounted by root. user allows mount/umount by ordinary
users, but I don't know what it does to read-write permissions. It is
usually used for allowing users to mount cd/floppy media etc. 

instead of user, try specifying a umask, like

/dev/hda5   /home/blissfix/fat vfat auto,umask=0000 0 0

> But as user I have no access, only as root.
> 
> cat /proc/mounts reveals:
> 
> /dev/hda5 /home/blissfix/fat vfat
> rw,nodiratime,nosuid,nodev,noexec,fmask=0033,dmask=0033
> 0 0
> 
> not sure what this means but even as root chown gives:
> 
> chown: Changing ownership of '/home/blissfix/fat/*':
> operation not permitted.
> 
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