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Hi everyone,
Im using redhat 7.3 and my question is how do u automatically mount a harddrive upon boot up? I have a 2nd harddrive that has data (hdb5) and everytime my linux box boots up..i have to type in "mount /dev/hdb5 /mnt/hdb" to access it. Can i edit the fstab file or something so that upon booting up my linux box it will mount that partition without me having to do it manually each time? Thanx for all the help and advice
It's a bit tricky with RH7.3. You have to add ',umask=000' after the mount-options (e.g. 'defaults') to get write access as normal user. Make sure you don't enter a blank after the comma! Your resulting line should look something like:
It's a bit tricky with RH7.3. You have to add ',umask=000' after the mount-options (e.g. 'defaults') to get write access as normal user. Make sure you don't enter a blank after the comma! Your resulting line should look something like:
because M$ never released enough info about NTFS, so the driver is still not perfected. It might take some time before you are fully able to write to an NTFS partition.
Well, you CAN is the thing, if you really don't care, and just want to jack up a drive trying, or something along those lines (supposedly can ruin the hardware as well, not just corrupt the files) then you can give it a try.
From the page where you linked us:
Quote:
N.B. The driver in these modules is read-only.
SO I am guessing that means that it's "read only", and that you can't write with a "read-only" module. But if you poke around on that website a bit more, and maybe read a few threads here and there, you could find a way to do it. I don't like to tell people how to do such things because it can cause such destruction and I'd feel bad, but the info is available, just use a little searching around to find it.
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