I am able to manually mount my fat32 drive but when the system reboots, I get an error "Mount:mount point /dev/xp does not exist". I jumped from Slackware to FC2 and had the same drive indentified as hdb5,hdb6 and hdb7 (3 partitions). I am assuming they are named the same? When I manually mount them, I see all my files....
fstab:
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb5 /dev/xp vfat defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb7 /dev/win vfat defaults 0 0

hdb6 is not loaded but I chose that. Also as an Ex-SLacker, I was able to run the dmesg | grep "^hd" and was able to see my drives, that command does not work in FC2. Can somee tell me the dmesg command?
df -h:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2 75G 6.2G 65G 9% /
/dev/hda1 97M 5.9M 86M 7% /boot
none 126M 0 126M 0% /dev/shm

I see 3 fstabs in the ETC folder? 2 have the ~ sign?

thanks
dareino

Oh dear.

First of all, your mount points should really not be in /dev/. They are meant to be in /mnt/,

/dev/ is for devices and most items in there are symlinks to hardware devices, such as soundcards, usb devices, etc. It is a very dynamic folder, and iirc it is recreated during the boot sequence as the devices are detected, so it's quite possible that this /dev/xp mount point that you must have created is destroyed when you reboot.

Make a mount point in /mnt/ instead, and change your /etc/fstab to read

If you like, you could move the mount point to your $HOME directory as well, and change the line in /etc/fstab to reflect that instead. I find that generally more convenient, but then again, I only mount Windows data partitions, not partitions containing Windows system files.

You might also want to read man mount and man fstab to get more information on the options you can use to mount partitions and drives.

Hope this helps.

whoops...major newb mistake!....I guess in my haste I overlooked that!
thanks buddy!
dareino