mounted vfat and user permissions

From: david (david_at_home.net)
Date: 10/30/03 

Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 23:14:19 GMT

Hello all..

I am trying to mount a new windows fat32 partiton into suse 9.0, I am a linux
newbie BTW, only been on it for 2 days. The problem I am having is that
only root has write access to this mounted volume and
me as a user does not. Below is the line I added to my etc/fstab file
It mounts without any errors BTW.

the directory /windows/E has the permissions set to group which I am a
member of and has write set as user.

/dev/hdb6 /windows/E vfat rw,users,gid=users 0 2

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