Re: mount fat
Tony Nugent <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.redhat.release.enigma |
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| Organization | Linux Works |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Fri May 16 2003 at 13:30, "Suprotip Ghosh" wrote: > Newbie Q... > > How do I mount my Windows partitions on Red Hat 7.2? A relatively trivial task... > mount -l, -t; ln /dev/hda1/ etc. ain't givin' any results... That is _not_ the way it is done. Try it like this: mkdir /mnt/dos mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos ls -l /mnt/dos > the startup log says while loading other filesystems, "no > mountpoints defined". What's the contents of your /etc/fstab file? > 'funny thing': Mandrake generally mounts fat automatically...!? *linux* can mount fat partitions automatically - if it is configured correctly. There would be nothing special about what Mandrake (or any other linux distro) does. > thanx all u gurus out there...in advance... Put something like this into fstab... /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos vfat defaults 0 0 Now all you have to do is "mount /mnt/dos" and it is done. I actually use this: /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos vfat noauto,uid=0,gid=0,fmask=644,dmask=755 0 0 (Change the uid and gid to suit if you need user access. The fmask and dmask make the filesystem permissions a bit more "sensible" than the defaults). This can also be done "magically" with automount (autofs), but that would be a bit too advanced to explain here. Cheers Tony