mnt problem

Rognon · 12-23-2003, 04:11 PM

Hi there,
Here's my problem : I wanted to automount a windows partition using autofs so that i could acces it as a normal user. I followed the instructions that I found somewhere but now not only I can't acces my windows partition but my /mnt folder is empty. Now I can't mount anything and if I try to make other dirs in /mnt i get the following error, even if i'm root :

mkdir: cannot create directory `cdrom': Permission denied

How can I fix that ??
thx,

-- Rognon

fr0zen · 12-23-2003, 04:21 PM

Well I'm thinking what happened is the /mnt directory has been 'mounted over'. You could check this by doing typing 'mount' to see the currently mounted filesystems. If that does not work, I suggest disabling automount, and rebooting.

Rognon · 12-23-2003, 04:49 PM

shutting down autofs worked, thanks. But now, how can I automount my windows partition and be able to acces it as a normal user ??

michaelk · 12-23-2003, 04:58 PM

A frequently asked question:
Create a mount point like /mnt/windows
Add and entry to your /etc/fstab
For NTFS
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs user,umask=222 0 0
FAT32
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat user,umask=000 0 0

Replace hda1 with the actual partition number. ntfs is limited to read only.
See man pages mount and fstab for additional options and help. You can also find help by search this website.

contrasutra · 12-23-2003, 05:17 PM

Also, make sure your user has read permissions for the actual folder the partition is mounted in. Check this BEFORE you mount the partition.

jschiwal · 12-23-2003, 05:27 PM

Note - for Fat32 partitions (using the file type vfat) you need to set the user or group id in the fstab line. Adding uid=xxx to the options where xxx is your user id will make you the owner of the mountede-partition.

Check out info mount for details. The FAT32 file system doesn't have the same attributes as an ext2/3 file system. Also, unless you added support for it, an NTFS file system will be mount read-only.

Rognon · 12-23-2003, 06:11 PM

hmm.. adding my windows partion to fstab was the first thing I tried but I could'nt acces it as a normal user, thats why I tried autofs. Now I retried adding it to fstab and it works perfectly... strange