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Old 06-20-2004, 01:59 PM   #1
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mandrake creates three drives on the desktop...


mandrake 10 creates three drives on the desktop when installed these contain nothing and can't be written to can i safely remove them, do i just delete the entries in fstab?
 
Old 06-20-2004, 02:17 PM   #2
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What are the names of the drives and the corresponding fstab entries?
 
Old 06-20-2004, 04:25 PM   #3
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names are
1)Hard Disc (part1) [/mnt/hd3]
2)Hard Disc (part1) [/mnt/hd2]
3)Hard Disc (part1) [/mnt/hd]

/dev/hde5 / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850 0 0
/dev/hdd1 /mnt/win_c ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-15,ro 0 0
/dev/hde1 /mnt/win_c2 ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-15,ro 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/win_c1 ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-15,ro 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c3 ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-15,ro 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hde6 swap swap defaults 0 0
none /mnt/hd supermount dev=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,kudzu,codepage=850 0 0
none /mnt/hd2 supermount dev=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,kudzu,codepage=850 0 0
none /mnt/hd3 supermount dev=/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/part1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,kudzu,codepage=850 0 00 0 0
 
Old 06-20-2004, 10:39 PM   #4
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you know the strange things is that i have the same problem only with a USB removable key. SOme time I have 2 drives sometimes 3 and only one of them can be used to actually access my key could this be related?
 
  


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