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Distribution: Mandrake as base, most software hand rolled
Posts: 80
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Originally posted by Wonderer The following mounts fine.
/dev/hda5 /fat-e vfat defaults,umask=000 0 0
But this does not
/dev/hda2 /winxp ntfs defaults,umask=000 0 0
Why is that? They both have the same settings.
/fat-e mounts but /winxp does not.
# mount /fat-e
already mounted
#mount /winxp
mount: mount point /winxp does not exist
I have tried dif settings as per above but not successfull yet.
I know it is a mounting problem but what is it?
Grrrmbl. I thought you said the mount point exists? OK - apparently it does not. Have you tried mkdir /winxp and then mounting ? If it doesn't work, report the error and we'll take it from there.
Don't worry - we'll get the thing mounted (even if we have to use a shoehorn to do so).
Distribution: Mandrake as base, most software hand rolled
Posts: 80
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If the problem is situated in the lack of FS support, you would get a different error. Nevertheless, to check for NTFS support, first do:
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cat /proc/filesystems
If that does not list NTFS, do
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modprobe ntfs
If that returns with "modprobe: Can't locate module ntfs", you don't have NTFS support.
If the modprobe works, do cat /proc/filesystems again to verify NTFS is now in there.
Originally posted by littleking
your entire problem is that you do not have a directory called winxp
You are right. I have messed up somewhere.
It was already mentioned in other threads and here by robartes
I had tried it before but I guess at the time, due to the changes to the fstab, I did not set the dir correctly or the fstab were not correct/matching at the time of changes and it did not mount.
I later removed the directories created and started all over again and that is where I ended up.
I now created mkdir /winxp and mount /winxp worked fine. I changed the fstab to auto from noauto and rebooted and it is all there and mounted.
Distribution: Mandrake as base, most software hand rolled
Posts: 80
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Code:
# ls -l /winxp
ls: /winxp: No such file or directory
So your mount point does not exist after all! What have you been doing when you said you did a 'mkdir /winxp'? As said before, the problem is exactly what the mount command says: your mount point does not exist. Create it, and then try again.
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