Re: Re: Re: mount fat
"Suprotip Ghosh" <[email protected]>
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Dear Wiz, I didn't just manage to mount my disks, I actually succeeded in configuring automount/autofs...tada only q is...I can't create shortcuts on my gnome desktop...to those vfat partitions :(... and oh...how do i quit from man pages??? ^Z only stops the task :( Suprotip (P.S. may I call you 'Wiz'? hope u don't mind?!) On Sat, 17 May 2003 Suprotip Ghosh wrote : >Thanx Wiz, > >I'll give it a shot, if it doesn't work, another QUESTION is >coming your way!!! > >Cya > >Suprotip > > >On Fri, 16 May 2003 Tony Nugent wrote : >>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 >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>enigma-list mailing list >>[email protected] >>https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/enigma-list > >___________________________________________________ >Impress your clients! Send mail from me @ mycompany.com . >Just Rs.1499/year. >Click http://www.rediffmailpro.com to know more. > > >_______________________________________________ >enigma-list mailing list >[email protected] >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/enigma-list ___________________________________________________ Impress your clients! Send mail from me @ mycompany.com . Just Rs.1499/year. Click http://www.rediffmailpro.com to know more.