I just loaded up Redhat 7.2 for the first time, and I don't know how to mount my vfat partitions because I am used to using linuxconf with earlier versions of Redhat.

Thanks in advance.

First, as root type in mkdir /mnt/vfat and then once that's done, use fdisk to figure out which partition is your vfat partition (unless you already know this info) and then type mount -t vfat /dev/hd? /mnt/vfat (where hd? is the actual partition you want to mount), and then once you've got the parition mounted, edit your etc/fstab and add the the following line: /dev/hd? /mnt/vfat vfat noauto,owner,users 0 0

Just line that info up with the other entries in the etc/fstab, exit and save the changes and you should be good to go. If I screwed this up at all please forgive me cause I'm still a newbie myself but I've dealt quite a bit with getting the vfat partitions mounted and useable for my system.

Dayewalker is correct excpet with the fstab file you may want instead of noauto to have auto so it reads like this

That's what mine looks like

Alex

I've actually been wondering about what the difference between having auto and noauto there would make. The only guess I could come up with would be that with auto, it automatically mounted the partitions when the system was booted up instead of having to manually mount them via the KDE desktop or whatever other means desired. Am I correct in that? Also, what does the rw in your entry mean?

the auto does mean that it is mounted automatically when linux is started up. rw just tells it to mount it read-write rather than ro (read-only - used on cdroms and NTFS drives like windows 2000/XP)

Alex

Ahh ok thanks

I put the entry into /etc/fstab with the rw bit, and I can access the files O.K.

Then, to let myself write to it without logging in as root I ran 'chmod 777 /mnt/vfatd' however, I can't write to /mnt/vfatd without being root. Is there anything I'm missing?

i actually have the same problem. but for me it isn;t that annoying since i don't need to move things to the windows partition very often.

Alex

To allow yourself (as opposed to "root") to read and write to a vfat file, this is how the line should look like in the fstab file:

/dev/hda2 /dosc vfat uid=500,gid=500,auto,rw 0 0

where uid=500 and gid=500 are your user ID number and group ID number, respectively. To find out what your uid and gid are, type "id" at the prompt.

Regards,

Pedro