Mandrake 8.0,8.1 & 8.2 and SuSe 8.0 used to recognize aautomatically my c: & d: FAT32 partitions, so I could easily use files into my win32 partitions when i was using linux, now that I installed redhat 9.0, they're gone, is there any way to activate those FAT32 partitions, to ve "visible" from my linux installation?
FAT32 Partitions on Linux
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blight
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first you need to add an entry for them to /etc/fstab - the filesystem type is "vfat"
you can use mount-options to set file permissions and owner/group (umask=0022,gid=...,uid=... or something)
check the fstab manpage (in kde use konqueror and go to man:/mount and select mount.8.gz, else open a terminal and type "man 8 mount" - dunno how to do it with gnome)
good luck
you can use mount-options to set file permissions and owner/group (umask=0022,gid=...,uid=... or something)
check the fstab manpage (in kde use konqueror and go to man:/mount and select mount.8.gz, else open a terminal and type "man 8 mount" - dunno how to do it with gnome)
good luck
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blight
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you should add the entry to /etc/fstab if you
a) want it to be mounted automatically at startup
b) you want to be able to mount the harddisk as non-superuser
if you want automatic mounting at boot, add "auto" option, else "noauto" and if you want users to be able to mount/umount add "user" option
a) want it to be mounted automatically at startup
b) you want to be able to mount the harddisk as non-superuser
if you want automatic mounting at boot, add "auto" option, else "noauto" and if you want users to be able to mount/umount add "user" option
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blight said:
Yeah, thx a lot dude, glad to know theres someone round here who knows more than turning your PC on/off.
I tried it and it worked really fine, i used "default" in that field, the only problem was that I hadnt created the /mnt/win_c dir, and didnt know I had to.
And thx to Lex too.