USB Drives mounted Read Only

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I have 2 usb drives attached to Pi2. They are both exFat. I have installed exFat-fuse and the drives are mounted at boot and can also be hot mounted. But they are always read only for group and others. chmod 777 does not work on exFat drives ( although it gives a message that it has worked). I also installed samba and both drives are visable on my Mac and on a Windows box. I edited to smb.conf file and set writable=yes for both disks and set create mask and directory mask to 777 but the drives remain read only accrosss the network.
I tried putting an entry in fstab with fmask and dmask set to 000 and this seemed to work and I could write and create directories from my MAC. but following a second reboot, the boot sequence hangs.
As far as I know, fstab is only concerned with first boot so even if I get it to work, it will not help with hot mounting.
Question boils down to: how can I get exFat drives to mount with write permissions both at startup and when swapping in and out.

thanks in advance

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@Dadooq Did you ever solve this?

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No. And since writing files over the network is so painfully slow, I decided that physically moving the hdd was faster anyway.

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in my experience, the fsck tools for ms partitions are terrible in linux. so when something like this happens, you need to run chkdsk or whatever windows utility to clear the flag that arises.

i assume there probably wasn’t a good shutdown. for a device that you want to be permanently on, having it as a ms partion is not advisable.

onmy media device that just packed up, i had it running linux (ext4 partitions). then used smb and i could play the media from my windows desktop.

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You realise that you’re replying to a thread that is over 3 months old right ?

Exfat support has been fixed in OSMC since this thread was finished - I’m not aware of any issues with exfat in RC3.