Mounting Boot Up problems

PDD · 10-21-2004, 10:00 AM

Hi Guys,

Linux n00b here, I am having problems mounting partitions at boot time. My fstab entries for the partitions look like this

/dev/hda5 /mnt/Storage auto vfat user,rw 0 0
/dev/hda6 /mnt/Backup auto vfat user,rw 0 0

I gives an error of not mounting properly during boot up but they mount except they are read only despite the fact that the rw option is set. They are fat32 partitions Im running Red Hat 9 (2.4.8) I know old but I will be moving to Debian soon or Gentoo. Havent decided yet.

Dave

mrosati · 10-21-2004, 10:09 AM

try replacing this

/dev/hda5 /mnt/Storage auto vfat user,rw 0 0

with this

/dev/hda5 /mnt/storage vfat auto,users,umask=000 0 0

this mounts your partition at boot and give permission to any user to mount/umount/read/write it.

Matteo