fstab settings to share WIN98 partition

pmorg · 09-26-2007, 10:02 AM

I just converted from FC2 to FC6 on my laptop. I have WIN98 living on partitions 1 and 2 and want to share the second partition (fat). In FC2 I called the second partition /dev/hda2 in fstab. However, FC6 can't find /dev/hda2, not with "mount -a" and not at bootup. When I try "fdisk hda" I get an error...something about hda not existing. Does FC6 use some other naming protocol?

pwc101 · 09-26-2007, 10:05 AM

As root, use the output of

Code:

fdisk -l

to determine what device your windows fat32 is assigned as, and then amend your /etc/fstab as appropriate.

pmorg · 09-26-2007, 07:20 PM

That got me the info I need. Now it's /dev/sda5. Don't know why, but I can live with that. I can now see it, but root owns it. I tried "uid=500" (500 is correct) but I still can only see it, not write to it.

I should be only one step from being done. What is that step to give me complete (exclusive would be OK) access?

pwc101 · 09-28-2007, 03:20 AM

In the fstab entry, you probably need to add "users" to the section where you added "uid=500". That's always allowed me to mount and write to media as a user.

sycamorex · 09-28-2007, 04:35 AM

I would write: users,uid=500,rw

jay73 · 09-28-2007, 11:32 AM

defaults,uid=500,gid=500,umask=0022

pmorg · 10-01-2007, 11:02 AM

That did the trick... for some reason I was using "user" rather than "users". You set me on the right track. Thanks.