I am trying to get Suse to automount my F drive under windows. It is mounting all the other drives based on the initial configuration but for some reason it skipped this drive.

I added what I think I needed via the make directory command and then


but it will not automount. If I use this command under root privileges it will mount it:

mount /dev/hdb5 /mnt/hdb5

Here is the output of some appropriate items, sorry for the formatting problem:

I added the line for /dev/hdb5

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> /dev/hdb3 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr
> 1 1
> /dev/hda1 /windows/C vfat
> users,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=utf8 0 0
> /dev/hda5 /windows/D ntfs
> ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
> /dev/hdb2 swap swap pri=42
>
> 0 0
> /dev/hdb5 /windows/F vfat
> defaults,gid=100,umask=000 0 0
> devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5
>
> 0 0
> proc /proc proc defaults
>
> 0 0
> usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto
>
> 0 0
> sysfs /sys sysfs noauto
>
> 0 0
> /dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder subfs
> fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
> /dev/dvdrecorder /media/dvdrecorder subfs
> fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
> /dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs
> fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0
>
>
> ===============
>
> linux:/home/computer # fdisk -l
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders Units = cylinders of
> 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 3824 30716248+ c W95 FAT32
> (LBA)
> /dev/hda2 3825 14592 86493960 f W95 Ext'd
> (LBA)
> /dev/hda5 3825 14592 86493928+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
>
> Disk /dev/hdb: 40.9 GB, 40982151168 bytes
> 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 79408 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008
> * 512 = 516096 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hdb1 39701 79385 20000925 f W95 Ext'd
> (LBA)
> /dev/hdb2 1 2049 1032664+ 82 Linux swap
> /dev/hdb3 2050 25001 11567808 83 Linux
> /dev/hdb5 39701 79385 20000893+ b W95 FAT32

>
> Partition table entries are not in disk order linux:/home/computer #

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What do you think I am doing wrong? I am new to linux but have considerable windows experience. I have 2 HDs, both split into two partitions. IDE0 (C) is windows (D) is NTFS for video editing, IDE1 had an E and F under windows, I delete E and used that space to instal Suse, F I left to share between Suse and windows.

Thanks for any sugestions.

"I am trying to get Suse to automount my F drive under windows."

The file that describes what is to mounted at boot is /etc/fstab. You can mount /dev/hdb5 at boot by adding an entry to /etc/fstab.

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Steve Stites

If you note my post the 1st file text I posted was from my fstab file and have the entry there but it does not seem to work.

This is the line I had added

/dev/hdb5 /windows/F vfat defaults,gid=100,umask=000 0 0

Anyone else?

i had the same problem at one point.
heres what i used. it seems to work.
i noticed that the defaults option didn't work very well.

/dev/hda2 /windows/Z vfat gid=users,umask=000 0 0

What do you mean by auto mount? Do you mean mounting it during boot? or using autofs ? (autofs mounts the device whenever the device is requested, so not during boot)

If you want it to be mounted during boot then try this:

/dev/hdb5 /windows/F vfat auto,gid=100,umask=000 0 0

I mean I want the drive mounted so I can click on the desktop icon and be able to view it's contents. I tried both suggestion as far as editing the fstab file and neither works.

It tells me that only root can mount a device....I realize I can mount it as root but I want it to be mounted like all the other drives when I log into my KDE desktop.

Thanks

Can anyone assist here? I will probably give up on Suse and go back to MDK since I never had this kind of issue with MDK. It just seems like there should be something more to do....It seems like a pretty simple thing I am trying to do but it does not work!!!!

I even checked the dev and mnt directories and they seem to be set up properly....I don't get it, if I use the SU command I can become root and then use the mount command from there and it will become visible but I can not get it to be that way at boot.....very frustrating because I never seem to have such problems with Windows....This should not be that big of a deal.....sorry for carrying on

are you actually changing the fstab? you must be root to change it. try using cp to make a copy to somewheere where you have permissons then cp it back as the root. then restart.

maybe also try changing the mtab

Thanks, I tried adding a line to mtab that was similar to the one that was already there for the C drive as that is Vfat as well but it still tells me it can not mount that drive when I get to the KDE desktop and try to click on the icon I created. I even tried creating a new icon but it states only root can mount....very annoying

and yes I changed it as root (fstab) suse lets you use conquerer as root and then I browsed to /etc and made the changes....and saved them, if I did not do it this way I would get an error telling me that I do not have auth to change the file

im assuming what you entered in the mtab looked something like this. this is just what worked for me

/dev/hda2 /windows/Z vfat rw,gid=100,umask=000 0 0


and my fstab:
/dev/hda2 /windows/Z vfat gid=users,umask=000 0 0

hope you get this figured out!