Help needed

irishgeo

in my wisdom i did nto set a mount point for my fat32 drive in linux install. Now linux does not see the drive. How can i fix this. I am using red hat 7.1

I was using the drive as a go between windows xP and linux. now it does not work.

I want it like that so i can use the internet in windows xp and then have the files avilable in linux. this is until i get the internet working in linux.

Can you help

lynchie

Do you know what partition the fat32 dirve is under?

If it is hda1, create a directory under mnt, called say xp and simply type mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/xp -t vfat

You should now be able to see your xp drive. To make this mounted drive appear from boot you need to add an entry into /etc/fstab. The format of the file is quite simple. I dont have access to any linux boxes at the moment, so I can't post up a sample line.

seamus

yep, do what lynchie there says.

The commands will be (if you're gonna mount it to a dir called 'xp'):

>mkdir /mnt/xp

>vi /etc/fstab

Then add the following line to fstab:

/dev/hda1 <tab> /mnt/xp <tab> vfat <tab> defaults <tab> 0 <tab> 0

And that should do it. Obviously <tab> means put in a tab space, and the last two yokes are zeros, not O's.

Then it should be mounted automatically every time you boot up.

A handy trick actually is to stick a file in the directory that will tell you whether the filesystem is mounted or not., for example:

>cd /mnt/xp
>vi ./Filesystem_not_mounted

Then just save that file. When you type ls, and your windoze partition isn't mounted, it'll just say, 'Filesystem_not_mounted'. When the partition is mounted this file will essentially be underneath it, so it won't appear in your windows listing.



{A quick google revealed: http://www.humbug.org.au/talks/fstab/fstab.html
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