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I have a USB FAT32 drive that is on /dev/sda2. I've mounted it as /media/bigdrive however, I get permission denied whenever I try to touch a file there as a non root user.

When I run mount I can see this line:

/dev/sda2 on /media/bigdrive type vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro)

My /etc/fstab has this line:

/dev/sda2       /media/bigdrive vfat    rw,user,exec,umask=000  0       0

I've tried running sudo chmod 777 /media/bigdrive and sudo chmod 777 -R /media/bigdrive

Neither one changes anything.

Is there anything I'm missing?

This is on a rasberry pi running raspbian BTW.

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Can you show us ls -ld /media/bigdrive? – ckhan Sep 7 '12 at 7:17
Mount it with uid and/or gid values, e.g. append uid=YOUR_ID (find YOUR_ID with id) to the options in fstab. A better choice would be to make udev handle this or at least refer to the partition by its UUID name (see ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid) and instead of /dev/sda2 use UUID=... in fstab. – Thor Sep 7 '12 at 9:08
Are you mounting the filesystem by typing mount /dev/sda2 or something else? – Gilles Sep 7 '12 at 23:16

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After editing /etc/fstab, you have to mount everything that has been added to it. The manual page for mount gives the following hint.

   -a, --all
          Mount all filesystems (of the given types) mentioned in fstab.

simply run the following instead of rebooting and you should be good to go.

# mount -a
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