I just upgraded my kernel to 2.4.20 from 2.4.19-16mdk i made sure to select support for all filesystems having to do with microsoft fat or vfat but now i cannot find my windows drive its windows XP and fat 32

heres my fstab

/dev/hda5 / ext3 noatime 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hda7 /mnt/hda7 ext3 noatime 1 2
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1 ext3 noatime 1 2
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0

-thanks

What does fdisk give you:

fdisk -l /dev/hda

?

[root@localhost root]# fdisk -l /dev/hda

Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4863 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1568 12594928+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda2 1569 4863 26467087+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 1569 4086 20225803+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 4756 4863 867478+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda7 4087 4755 5373679+ 83 Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

From you fstab your windows partition is supposed to mount on boot. The mount command with no options will display whats mounted. Is it mounted? I take it no files are displayed in the /mnt/windows directory?

You might want to try mounting the partition using the mount
command.

[root@localhost root]# mount
/dev/hda5 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620)
/dev/hda7 on /mnt/hda7 type ext3 (rw,noatime)
/dev/hdb1 on /mnt/hdb1 type ext3 (rw,noatime)



[root@localhost root]# mount /mnt/windows
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1,
or too many mounted file systems


those are the errors i get

i got it to mount by typing

[root@localhost root]# mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows

but cant reboot right now does anyone know if now that i have it mounted it will mount all the time at boot or will i have to mount this every time?

if so then how do i set it to mount every time?

add an "auto" to the options for that line

would the line look like this then? if not can you please provide an example?


mount -t -auto vfat /dev/hda5 /mnt/windows

sorry, i meant the line in /etc/fstab

like this
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat auto,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0