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How to automount windows drives in FC6?

Hi all,
I have installed FC6 in my PC along with winxp. I want to share my windows drives. The drives are D drive(hda5) and E drive(hda6).

It works fine if I try the regular mount command as:

Code:

mkdir /mnt/WinXP_D

mount -t vfat /dev/hda5 /mnt/WinXP_D



..and similar code for WinXP_E with hda6

But as you would all agree to mount this way each time you login is a pain in the ass. So I tried automounting by editing the /etc/fstab as:

Code:

/mnt/WinXP_D /dev/hda5 vfat rw,auto,user,sync 0 0

/mnt/WinXP_E /dev/hda6 vfat rw,auto,user,sync 0 0

But its giving error msgs as WinXP_D(and E) is not a block device,.. is write-protected,..cannot mount... in the second line trying to mount as read-only and then cannot mount as read-only also. I could not write down the exact sentences as the screen changes very fast.

What could be wrong? I had tried similar thing in RH8 and it had worked?

Kindly guide.

Change the auto line to noauto, then fstab will not attempt to mount it automatically at boot. That way you can try doing it manually from a terminal and you can see the output messages. When there's an entry in fstab, mounting is as simple as typing 'mount /dev/hd5' or 'mount /mnt/WinXP_D'. Once you've diagnosed the problem you can put it back.

(Edit after reading again) D'oh! I just noticed your problem. You have the device and mount point options reversed. /dev/hda5 should come first.

Finally, FAT drives usually should have a few extra options such as umask for setting the permissions level and uid/gid for setting the user and group. Read the vfat section in 'man mount' for more, and/or do a search of the site.

It should read

Code:

/dev/hda5 /mnt/WinXP_D vfat rw,auto,user,umask=0000,sync 0 0

/dev/hda6 /mnt/WinXP_E vfat rw,auto,user,umask=0000,sync 0 0

Thanks David and Shrikant. I implemented your suggestion. The problem is solved.
Thanks again.