how do you rename the mount pionts for the startup automount

whited · 03-08-2005, 04:20 PM

In slackware 10.1 whenever you install it asks you if you want to make your windows partitions viewable under linux and by what name. I completely reformated a partition as fat32 and made it not viewable under windows. How can I change the names that the mount during start up program gives them? Thank you.

Bruce Hill · 03-08-2005, 04:40 PM

I'm assuming you named it something on the install
that you don't like. If that's the case, Slackware has
created entries in /etc/fstab and assigned a mount
point like this

Code:

mingdao@james:~$ cat /etc/fstab
/dev/hda1        /XP              ntfs        user,umask=1000,ro,auto      1   0
/dev/hda2        /PROGRAMS        ntfs        user,umask=1000,ro,auto      1   0
/dev/hda3        /DATA            vfat        user,umask=1000,rw,auto      1   0

and you need to edit that file, and also the directory
under your / directory

Code:

mingdao@james:~$ ls -alc /
drwxrwxrwx  48 root root 32768 1970-01-01 07:00 DATA/
d------r-x   1 root root  8192 2005-03-05 11:05 PROGRAMS/
d------r-x   1 root root  8192 2005-03-05 11:16 XP/

Both of these actions will require you to either login to
a terminal as root, or issue the command like this
$ su -c "pico /etc/fstab"
Password:
which will ask for your root user password, and then
allow you to work as root until you close the pico
editor and save your changes. For the mount point
$ su -c "mv /<present_name> /<desired_name>"

amwink · 03-08-2005, 04:42 PM

EDIT

Chinaman has already answered better than me! Good luck. amwink

whited · 03-08-2005, 11:44 PM

/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda3 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/hdb1 /media vfat defaults 1 0
/dev/hdb5 /data vfat defaults 1 0
/dev/hdb6 /rootmedia vfat defaults 1 0
/dev/hdb7 /programs vfat defaults 1 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

I want to make a password in order to get into rootmedia. I tried changing permissions but it didn't work.

Bruce Hill · 03-08-2005, 11:58 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by whited
/dev/hdb6 /rootmedia vfat defaults 1 0

I want to make a password in order to get into rootmedia. I tried changing permissions but it didn't work.

It looks like that partition is mounted under / and not
under /home/<username> so root should be the only
guy who can write to it.

Is that not so?

You can use any user you already have, and any type
of read/write/execute combination you want. You could
even create a new user and only let him rwx that directory.

How did you try changing permissions?

If you'd like to read some and check your work before
posting again, issue
$ man mount
$ man fstab
and there is a good, simple guide to file permissions here
in the LQ Answers -- Quick and Dirty Guide to Linux File Permissions

Did you solve the first problem?