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We all know the normal usage of ‘mount’ as

command line usage:

$ mount -t /dev/hda1 /mnt/directory

in /etc/fstab file:

/dev/hda1 /mnt/directory vfat defaults 0 0

By using either of above usages, only root can have write permissions on vfat filesystems. For getting write permissions to normal users:

/dev/hda1 /mnt/directory vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=utf8 0 0

Add this line to /etc/fstab file. And “users” is the group in which all users will get write permissions to mounterd vfat drives. Only vfat file system has this option. For filesystems like NTFS etc, even root doesn’t have write permissions. It is still in implementation.