Hello all,

Im new to linux and mandrake, so please bear with my ignorance.

i have a dual boot system with xp on one drive and mandrake community on another drive by itself.

there is a 3rd drive that is a fat 32 drive.

everything was fine until i unmounted and remounted the fat 32 drive and now i cant see any data on it. reads the size properly, and i can access it in xp fine.

when i open the folder it is empty (file:/mnt/misc)

ive also moved the boot point from c2 to misc
but i could not see any data before i moved the boot point

thanks in advance

Dan

So how do you mount? Do you have an entry for the drive in /etc/fstab or do you mount as root manually? In the first case, please post the /etc/fstab, in the second case the mount command. From your description I would assume that the drive isn't mounted at all. You can check that if you type 'mount -l' on a console. If your drive doesn't appear there, it is not mounted.

thanks for replying,


i dont think it is mounted, here is the terminal report

[d@localhost d]$ mount -l
/dev/sdb1 on / type ext3 (rw) []
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw)
/dev/sdb6 on /home type ext3 (rw) []
none on /mnt/floppy type supermount (rw,sync,dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850)
/dev/sda1 on /mnt/win_c type ntfs (ro,umask=0,nls=iso8859-1)
/dev/sda5 on /mnt/win_d type ntfs (ro,umask=0,nls=iso8859-1)
capifs on /dev/capi type capifs (rw,mode=0666)
[d@localhost d]$

in control center, when i try to mount the drive it says mount failed
i will login as root and try again

it says mount failed using root login
im trying to mount using control center--mount -points--partitions

sorry, her is the ftab listing

/dev/sdb1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/sdb6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0
/dev/sdc1 /mnt/misc ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-1,ro 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/win_c ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-1,ro 0 0
/dev/sda5 /mnt/win_d ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-1,ro 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sdb5 swap swap defaults 0 0

/etc/fstab is a file, not a directory. I don't know mandrake, but it should be there.

I would suggest to login as root and check on which device the drive is located (type 'fdisk -l'), but I would guess it's sdc1. Then try to mount manually with 'mount -t vfat /dev/<the-device> /mnt/misc'.

Didn't get your last post in time:

If you are sure that the drive is fat32 and not ntfs, try to change the entry for /dev/sdc1 to the following (need to be root):

Be sure that every entry is in one line only!

thanks

i tried this


[root@localhost d]# mount -t vfat /dev/sdc1/mnt/misc
Usage: mount -V : print version
mount -h : print this help
mount : list mounted filesystems
mount -l : idem, including volume labels
So far the informational part. Next the mounting.
The command is `mount [-t fstype] something somewhere'.
Details found in /etc/fstab may be omitted.
mount -a [-t|-O] ... : mount all stuff from /etc/fstab
mount device : mount device at the known place
mount directory : mount known device here
mount -t type dev dir : ordinary mount command
Note that one does not really mount a device, one mounts
a filesystem (of the given type) found on the device.
One can also mount an already visible directory tree elsewhere:
mount --bind olddir newdir
or move a subtree:
mount --move olddir newdir
A device can be given by name, say /dev/hda1 or /dev/cdrom,
or by label, using -L label or by uuid, using -U uuid .
Other options: [-nfFrsvw] [-o options] [-p passwdfd].
For many more details, say man 8 mount .

where/how do i enter this?

/dev/sdc1 /mnt/misc vfat umask=0,gid=users,nls=iso8859-1 0 0

i saw in system configuration it was listed as an ntfs, although in xp it is a fat32

In /etc/fstab (open a console, become root by typing 'su' followed by the password, use your favourite editor, eg. 'pico /etc/fstab' and change the line that starts with "/dev/sdc1").

There is a space missing between sdc1 and /mnt

Thats done it!

thanks

I had to change permissions using permdrake to group access (had root only after mounting)

this is weird!

the drive has unmounted itself
could not read files on it
i remounted. and now all directories and files have the same icon, and when i right click on a known doc file, (to open it with a reader)the options grey out and i cant open directories ----- basically unusable .but it does show the correct size and free space

here is the fstab

/dev/sdb1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/sdb6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0
/dev/sdc1 /mnt/misc vfat umask=0,gid=users,nls=iso8859-1 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/win_c ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-1,ro 0 0
/dev/sda5 /mnt/win_d ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-1,ro 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sdb5 swap swap defaults 0 0



here is the fdisk-l

[root@localhost d]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 3917 31463271 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 3918 19457 124825050 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 3918 19457 124825018+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 37.0 GB, 37019566080 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4500 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 764 6136798+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 765 4500 30009420 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 765 827 506016 82 Linux swap
/dev/sdb6 828 4500 29503341 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdc: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 1 9964 80035798+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)


any ideas?

Try to append the option 'exec' to the /etc/fstab line. This allows to execute of programs from that location. Maybe that helps...

how/where do i append exec?

Come on, have a little phantasy!

In /etc/fstab

/dev/sdc1 /mnt/misc vfat umask=0,gid=users,nls=iso8859-1,exec 0 0