Mount point won't allow read/write for non-root user

Question

Any ideas why this particular fstab line leads to root user only read/write for any disk referenced in my fstab?
Example:
UUID=496E-7B5E   /media/STORAGE   vfat   defaults 0   0
I have tried all variations of what "defaults" should be (rw,suid,dev,exec)
I had even added uid=0777, and no matter what options I add there, doing
sudo mount -a
or with the line in fstab commented out and
mount -t vfat -U 496E-7B5E /media/STORAGE -o defaults
causes the same issue.
Results in every filesystem there to be mounted as read only for me as a user, and I can only write to them as root. 
Weird
I have run
sudo chmod -v -R a+rwx /media/STORAGE
and similarly
sudo chmod -v -R 0777 /media/STORAGE
Both were tried on the directory as mounted and unmounted.  When mounted, the verbose output DOES NOT error out and shows property change of the files
Oddly, if no fstab reference is used, the disk shows up in the dolphin panel, and can be mounted in that manner and it is read write as a usual user. 
Using a Chakra-live installed with Unetbootin, so perhaps that is the issue... so
How is mounting through dolphin handled and what might I use at the command line to accomplish this same routine, as I only need one partition to mount read write when the system starts, so maybe I can add the command to rc.local
Last edited by bwh1969 (2009-01-18 23:04:59)

Answer 1

# fstab generated by gen_fstab
#<file system>   <dir>         <type>      <options>    <dump> <pass>
none            /dev/pts      devpts      defaults        0     0
none            /dev/shm      tmpfs       defaults        0     0
UUID=496E-7B5E /media/STORAGE vfat    defaults,user,users,rw,exec,uid=777,gid=777   0       0
/dev/sr0     /mnt/sr0_cd  auto     user,noauto,exec,unhide 0     0
# This would do for a floppy
#/dev/fd0        /mnt/floppy    vfat,ext2 rw,user,noauto    0     0
#    +   mkdir /mnt/floppy
# E.g. for USB storage:
#/dev/sdb1        /mnt/usb      auto      rw,user,noauto   0     0
#    +   mkdir /mnt/usb