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08-25-2003, 03:43 PM
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Member
Registered: Aug 2003
Location: you dont want to know
Distribution: Gentoo 2004.2, Slackware 10, Windows XP, Windows 2003 Server
Posts: 348
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Mounting problems
I'm having problems seeing my windows partition... In my /etc/fstab file it displays this for my windows mount:
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0
when i go to /mnt/win/ it displays nothing in the path... Thanks in advance.
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08-25-2003, 03:45 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Mar 2002
Location: Salt Lake City, UT - USA
Distribution: Gentoo ; LFS ; Kubuntu ; CentOS ; Raspbian
Posts: 12,613
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You may very well have to mount it first:
mount /mnt/win
Then enter that directory.
Cool
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08-25-2003, 03:59 PM
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Member
Registered: Jan 2003
Distribution: Redhat 9, Fedora Core 1, Suse 8
Posts: 188
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you may also need to create a mount point and specify the mount type
ex:
#mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/mountpoint
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08-25-2003, 04:02 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Mar 2002
Location: Salt Lake City, UT - USA
Distribution: Gentoo ; LFS ; Kubuntu ; CentOS ; Raspbian
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Not normally, not with Mandrake, and most modern distros anyway. And the user said "I entered the directory and nothing was there" that is indicating the directory is present  However, that is good to know for future reference
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08-25-2003, 04:02 PM
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Member
Registered: Aug 2003
Location: you dont want to know
Distribution: Gentoo 2004.2, Slackware 10, Windows XP, Windows 2003 Server
Posts: 348
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i tried both your guys's suggestions, and even restarted my pc (last resort  ) and still couldn't see it from the nice GUI... i went to my terminal and tried to look at it from there and i COULD see it there. i probly just messed wit somethin i shouldn't have
thx for your guys help
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08-25-2003, 04:08 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Mar 2002
Location: Salt Lake City, UT - USA
Distribution: Gentoo ; LFS ; Kubuntu ; CentOS ; Raspbian
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It's a permissions deal likely then...
Look at adding this to the entry above: umask=000
So:
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=000 0 0
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08-27-2003, 05:52 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Mar 2002
Distribution: Mandrake8.1
Posts: 18
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This works on my Mandrake 9.1. I added the following to what was there originally:
user,rw,umask=0,
user allows users to mount/access it, rw makes it read/writeable and umask=0 sets the permissions to rwx for all.
Good luck,
Jools
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08-27-2003, 05:53 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Mar 2002
Distribution: Mandrake8.1
Posts: 18
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Oops sorry, result should look like:
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat user,rw,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0
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