making fat partition writable

kidstyx · n00b Joined: 22 Sep 2004 Posts: 12

i had my fat partition (an extra hdd) writable by all users before..
i installed vmware, installed windows under vmware (virtual disk under the fat partition), and made vmware share my linux partitions for virtual windows...
it had worked fine until some time ago when it crashed

now my fat partition won't mount writable..
i can't write to the hdd as a normal user, or even as a root!

here is my current fstab :

/dev/hda3 /boot ext2 defaults,noatime 1 2
/dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hda6 / ext3 noatime 0 1
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/c ntfs auto,ro,umask=0222 0 0
/dev/hda2 /mnt/e ntfs auto,ro,umask=0222 0 0
/dev/hdd1 /mnt/bigfoot vfat auto,rw,umask=000 0 0

hdd1 is the one i want to make writable..
i had uninstalled vmware and reinstalled it, but t'was no help

can anyone pls help me..

mgraham76 · n00b Joined: 25 Feb 2004 Posts: 35 Location: Seneca, MO

I think you need somthing like this (this is from memory, not tested)

kidstyx · n00b Joined: 22 Sep 2004 Posts: 12

nope..it doesn't seem to work

the thing is that i've never changed my fstab since the first time i was able to write to my hdd1..
i'm thinking there must be something else which could change the permission (to read-only), since even root can't even write to it or change its permissions...
this happened after i installed vmware and the virtual windows within vmware crashed..

is there something else i can change besides fstab?

or

i am able to unmount my hdd1 and remount it again..
is it possible to mount my hdd1 WRITABLE by ALL USERS by using the MOUNT command??? if so, how??

kidstyx · n00b Joined: 22 Sep 2004 Posts: 12

i seem to have found the exact problem..

when i boot up my pc, it automatically shows the kde login screen..

i then ctrl+alt+f1 to switch to the external shell and login as root..

i then unmounted my /dev/hdd1 by umount /dev/hdd1,

i then remounted it by "mount -o umask=000 /dev/hdd1"..

i was then able to write to my hdd1 from all users..

then i thought "great!", but when i switched back to my kde by alt+f7 and logged in as my user, i then couldn't write to hdd1 from any users, and even root!

so the problem must be kde itself, or maybe its just my user..

how do i fix this problem?

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

Which user is the owner and group of the directory, and what are the permissions?
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kidstyx · n00b Joined: 22 Sep 2004 Posts: 12

fixed it

some files on the hdd were giving errors, and after running fsck everything worked out