Mounted fat32 partition not writable?

[bailout]

I have just installed gutsy. I have a fat32 partition for data that I share with XP. On previous releases I have set this up to mount by editing the fstab with this line;
/dev/sd5 /media/Data vfat user,fmask=0111,dmask=0000 0 0

This time I used the disk management in kubuntu system settings and although I can see it I can't write to it despite having ticked 'make writable'. The line that has been added to fstab is as follows;
/dev/sda5 /home/me/Data auto nouser,atime,auto,rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0

(ignore the different location)

What is stopping the drive being writable, despite appearing to have a rw tag, and is there any reason why I shouldn't just copy the old line I used to use. The 'arguments' used in the new gennerated line are completely different.

thanks

[dibl]

Re: Mounted fat32 partition not writable?

/dev/sda5 /home/me/Data auto nouser,atime,auto,rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0

Make a backup of your /etc/fstab file, and then I would try changing that line to read like this:

/dev/sda5 /home/me/Data vfat nouser,atime,auto,rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 2

[Fintan]

Re: Mounted fat32 partition not writable?

I use this:

/dev/sda5 /Data vfat umask=000,uid=0,gid=0,auto,rw,nouser 0 0

If that helps