Mounting fat32 partition/hard disk

I found this easy method somewhere online:

First find out what the partition is labelled as by performing fdisk -l

[root@localhost /]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        2611    20972826    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2            2612        3886    10241437+  83  Linux
/dev/sda3            3887        5161    10241437+  83  Linux
/dev/sda4            5162       14593    75762540    5  Extended
/dev/sda5            5162        8221    24579418+   b  W95 FAT32
/dev/sda6            8222       11281    24579418+   b  W95 FAT32
/dev/sda7           11282       14593    26603608+   b  W95 FAT32

So sda5, 6 and 7 are my fat32 partitions. I need to mount those so that I can make use of them. The following method also mounts them at reboot so you only need to do this once.

Open /etc/fstab in any convenient editor.

In my case, I had to append the following at the end of the file:

/dev/sda5 /mnt/academics vfat users,owner,rw,umask=000 0 0
/dev/sda6 /mnt/media vfat users,owner,rw,umask=000 0 0
/dev/sda7 /mnt/storage vfat users,owner,rw,umask=000 0 0

This gives all users read/write access to the three paritions. I decided to name them academics, media and storage. If you want only read access and no write access, change the "rw" to "ro".

Save the fstab file.

Next, you would like to create mount points for these partitions. I decided to have them under "/mnt". So:

[root@localhost /]# mkdir /mnt/academics
[root@localhost /]# mkdir /mnt/media
[root@localhost /]# mkdir /mnt/storage

And finally, automount:

[root@localhost /]# mount -a

The drives should be accessible now. Furthermore, they stay accessible after reboot. Enjoy.