 | | | mount fat | mount fat 2003-05-17 - By Suprotip Ghosh
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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
>
>
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