Cannot write to fat32 partition

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After many, many failed attempts to get a PC-BSD installation I've finally managed to get it installed and am in the process of learning my way around.
Very much a beginner.

First problem:

I'm trying to mount a shared fat32 partition with full read/write access and that automatically mounts on boot.

This is the entry I have in /etc/fstab:

/dev/ad1s6	/media/shared		msdosfs	rw		0	0

It does mount and I can see the files but I am unable to write to the partition as user.

Any help?

This is the only way I can do it in linux and I'm assuming BSD does things differently.

/dev/sda6/     media/shared		vfat	auto,rw,umask=0000,noatime 		0       0

[Hlebarkata_321]

Can you have write acces as root?

[antik]

I'm trying to mount a shared fat32 partition with full read/write access and that automatically mounts on boot.

If your FA32 filesystem is not "clean" then PC-BSD refuses to mount it from any position. First check it from Windows with scandisk or any other command line utility from PC-BSD.

# fsck_msdosfs
usage: fsck_msdosfs -p [-f] filesystem ...
       fsck_msdosfs [-ny] filesystem ...

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The partition is mounting fine but I've tried running various tools to check it with nothing reported.

I can write to the partition as root, just not as user.

Do I need to add myself to a particular group?

[antik]

The partition is mounting fine but I've tried running various tools to check it with nothing reported.

I can write to the partition as root, just not as user.

Do I need to add myself to a particular group?

Yes, operator.

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Already a member of the operator group :?

Also, not sure if it's related but once mounted, I am unable to unmount ANY partition.

unmount of /media/whatever failed: Device busy

[antik]

Already a member of the operator group :?

Also, not sure if it's related but once mounted, I am unable to unmount ANY partition.

unmount of /media/whatever failed: Device busy

Because you are already accessing filesystem. Close applications and try again.

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That's just it though, I'm not accessing them when I try to unmount.
Everything is closed with only a terminal open (and I'm not in the mounted filesystem either).

It is the same if I try to unmount them when not in X

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Well I've been googling like mad about this but it's just not happening.

I really cannot see any reason at all why I am unable to write to the partition as user :?

[Solarin]

Just a thought, but it could well be because fat32 doesn't support ownership of files. So they're all owned by root instead. You may be able to change this behaviour though.