Cannot mount extra partition as writeable {SOLVED - need help with bugreport}

[7penselen]

I have an extra partition (fat32) where I store my data and other stuff which I don' t use every day. This partition is fat32 because my Windows partition has also to use it. A week ago I installed Kubuntu 8.04 AMD64 and since than I cannot mount my extra partition as writeable. I need to become root before I can copy a file on that partition. I used Kubuntu 7.10 IA32 and more versions before, but this is the first time I have this problem.

Settings
Partitions (all partitions are ENABLED)
I have 5 partitions
* /dev/sda1/ /media/windows/ in Windoze XP (NTFS)
* /dev/sda2/ (SWAP)
* /dev/sda3/ Linux partition
* /dev/sda5/ /media/sda5 - data partition fat32

Info partition /dev/sda5
* mount point: /media/sda5
* Device by name /dev/sda5
* Enable at startup (on)
* Writeable (on)
* Mount permission : Root user only may enable/disable.

Advanced
* Update fileaccess timestamp (on)
* Allow executables (on)
* Allow SUID and SGID attributes (on)
* Allow mount points (off)
* Options : NOTHING
* fs-freq: 0
* fs-passno: 0

When I open my console the
std rights 755
User: root
Group: root

FSTAB
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda3
UUID=8c30d561-2854-46b7-af88-1f77affd4954 / ext3 nouser,relatime,errors=remount-ro,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 1
# /dev/sda2
UUID=2dbb85db-7910-4688-9bd9-647fe826ac68 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,utf8,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
/dev/scd1 /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,utf8,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
/dev/sda5 /media/sda5 auto nouser,atime,auto,rw,nodev,exec,suid 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/windows auto nouser,atime,auto,rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0

According the user manager these are my secondairy groups
adm, dialout, fax, cdrom, floppy, audio, dip, video, plugdev, syslog, scanner, fuse, lpadmin, admin

Attachment is the screen with all my partition settings.

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Could anybody tell me how to make the partition writeable again.

If you don' t know how to do it on a descent way please tell me how 777 my fat32 partition.

[BlueRose]

Re: Cannot mount extra partition as writeable

I'm still a noob with all this, but have you tried to change the owner from root to user?
might help.. I think the command was chown but I'm not sure

[7penselen]

Re: Cannot mount extra partition as writeable

Thank you for responding.

Sorry it didn't work.

It is a FAT 32 partition which has standard NO right en users settings. These settings should be somewhere in the hal settings.

I tried to 777 with chmod -R 777 /media/sda5/ and the computer went busy. After it nothing has changed. But personally I didn' t expect this.

[Teunis]

Re: Cannot mount extra partition as writeable

You are right that FAT32 does not have rights or user settings.

But the folder onto which the device is mounted does.

An easy way to change the ownership is through Konqueror but obviously only possible when it has root rights.
Therefore your start Konqueror as root:

kdesu konqueror

(kdesu is similar to sudo but more appropriate in the kde environment.)

Next find the /media/fat32 folder, right click it and ask for the properties, then select the access tab and do what needs to be done.
The -R (recursive) is done by ticking the bottom box.

Another thing, these days you can access ext2/3 devices and partitions from Windows using an utility called ext2ifs and ntfs partitions from Linux using ntfs-3g plus ntfs-config, the last two are in the repositories, the first can be found with google.
FAT32 has had it's time.

[7penselen]

Re: Cannot mount extra partition as writeable |SOLVED but need help for bugrep.

Thanks for your response

Ik did also some other research and I found some options in the menu I never has discovered. So I can set the VFAT file system and I got more options.
Secondly I read somewhere over using umask=002, so I used this as option.

See the screencopy.

But now I have some questions to make a decent bugreport.

1) Why does the "writeable" button doesn't work? So I fix this with using umask=002 in the options?
2) Why doesn't the auto filesystem mode use root/root and not root / plugdev?
3) Why is the standard mask 755 and not 775, which is necesary for decent plugdev support?

Can someone help me looking what is wrong so I can write a desent bugreport.

NOTE: I use the AMD64 Kubuntu.