You are mounting /dev/hdc1 only when needed (noauto), and as owned by 
the user knoppix.  Since you can read the drive when you want to, I 
assume you have auto mounting running.  What you want to do is change 
the uid to your user id (either your account name or the number - you 
can find it by the id command).  If you want the drive mounted all the 
time, then you can change the fstab line to
/dev/hdc1 /mnt/hdc1 vfat uid={your user id}, defaults    0 0
scott
Maurice Wilson wrote:
> Below is the fstab file in Debian
>
> # /etc/fstab: filesystem table.
> #
> # filesystem  mountpoint  type  options  dump  pass
> /dev/hda2  /  ext3  defaults,errors=remount-ro  0  1
> /dev/hda5  none  swap  sw  0  0
> proc  /proc  proc  defaults  0  0
> /dev/fd0  /floppy  vfat  defaults,user,noauto,showexec,umask=022  0  0
> /dev/cdrom /cdrom  iso9660  defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto  0  0
> /dev/dvd /dvd  iso9660  defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto  0  0
> /dev/cdaudio /cdaudio  iso9660  defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto  0  0
> # Added by KNOPPIX
> /dev/hdc1 /mnt/hdc1 vfat 
> noauto,users,exec,umask=000,uid=knoppix,gid=knoppix 0 0
>
> Thanks again. Maury
>
>
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This list is provided as an unmoderated internet service by Networked
> Knowledge Systems (NKS).  Views and opinions expressed in messages
> posted are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the
> official policy or position of NKS or any of its employees.
>
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
This list is provided as an unmoderated internet service by Networked
Knowledge Systems (NKS).  Views and opinions expressed in messages
posted are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the
official policy or position of NKS or any of its employees.
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.3 : Fri Aug 01 2014 - 20:41:47 EDT