Re: mount fat

On Mon May 19 2003 at 09:55, "Suprotip Ghosh" wrote:

> Dear Wiz,

:)

> I didn't just manage to mount my disks, I actually succeeded in
> configuring automount/autofs...tada

CONGRADS! :)  (really).  The way linux (unix) treats filesystems and
devices is logical, consistent, and gives you a lot of power and
flexability.  It's quite different from the way m$dos/windo$e does
things (assigning drive letters and so on).

For sure things like this are a learning curve when it first hits
you, but the view from the top of each steep hill you will climb
just keeps getting better and better...  and there is a lot of
helpful documentation everywhere on the net to help you on your way
(http://google.com/linux and http://tldp.org/ are your friends).

> only q is...I can't create shortcuts on my gnome desktop...to
> those vfat partitions :(...

It would be possible to get it working (not sure how, I would need
to fiddle with this myself:)  Perhaps someone else can help here?

> and oh...how do i quit from man pages??? ^Z only stops the task
> :(

The default pager is /usr/bin/less, and you quit from that with
either `q' or `ZZ' (`ZZ' mimics vi's ZZ save-and-quit-file command).

It is possible to create a ~/.lessrc file that allows you to
customise its behaviour to do things like bind the Esc key to quit
the pager... see "man lesskey" (and "man less", "less --help" and
the 'h' help screen from within less).

> Suprotip
> 
> (P.S. may I call you 'Wiz'? hope u don't mind?!)

Sure, why not?  I've been called worse things...  :)

(12 years of solid unix experience, 9 with linux, so I guess I don't
mind too much.  but probably more of a geek than a wiz ;)

> >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?

> >> 	mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos

> >>This can also be done "magically" with automount (autofs), but
> >>that would be a bit too advanced to explain here.

Cheers
Tony