dcbevins wrote:The"not a valid mount point" error sometimes means the folder does not exist. just make a folder in /media called MyBook and try again, (capitalization matters.)

I tried that and it was accepted in fstab and mounted correctly, but my regular user account still couldn't write to it.

atcl wrote:Tried this (
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) variant of fstab line already?

Greetings

I just tried that and my external HD partition disappeared, and for some reason I couldn't write to the new 'share' directory without root. Now here's where it get's interesting. After I realized that this work around wasn't effective, I went back into fstab, deleted the new line so that it was back to its default, and ran mount -a . My external HD showed up again and I could write to it as a regular user! 0_o

I figured it was too good to be true, so I rebooted and it was back to the way it was before, needing root access.

I just read it's no good to mount a FAT partition with the utf-8 parameter:
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The suggestion would be