 | | | mount fat | mount fat 2003-05-16 - By Tony Nugent
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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
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