 | | | mount fat | mount fat 2003-05-19 - By Suprotip Ghosh
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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
>>
>>
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