Mounting Fat 32 (Windows) directory in FC2

Mac mrmack1 at yahoo.com
Sun Jun 6 15:54:34 UTC 2004


Thank you for the suggestion but, alas, it did not
solve the problem. It still won't automatically mount
the windows drive in gnome (I can still do it as root)
and in KDE I can't do it at all.


--- Dylan Parry <me at dylanparry.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Jun 2004 08:28:51 -0700 (PDT), Mac
> <mrmack1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > I have been unable to automatically mount the
> Windows
> > directory in FC2.  When FC2 is loading I get this
> > failure message:
> 
> I have the following in my fstab:
> 
> /dev/hdb1   /mnt/windows   vfat  
> auto,users,gid=windows,umask=0007 0 0
> 
> and a group called "windows", which contains all the
> users that I want to  
> be able to write to the Windows partition. I
> originally had this in RH7.3  
> (8.0, 9, FC1) and it still works now in FC2, so it
> seems pretty future  
> proof :)
> 
> Of course, you would have to change hdb1 to match
> whatever yours is, and  
> remember to create a "windows" group with your
> username in it...
> 
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