tsitras@spymac.com wrote: > i added a partition which is fat32. apparently the user has only read > access to this partition. only root can write. how can i make user have > write access as well? here is the line from the /etc/fstab: > /dev/hdb5 /mnt/hdb5 vfat noauto,users,exec,umask=1000,gid=1000,uid=1000 > please i need some help quickly. Try "umask=004" instead of "umask=1000". Adam