Mounting Fat 32 (Windows) directory in FC2

Clif Smith fedora at cjs226.com
Sun Jun 6 16:13:49 UTC 2004


Using vfat as the filesystem only works if the filesystem is truly 
fat/fat32.  Is the filesystem possibly NTFS?

cjs

Mac wrote:

>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...
>>
>>-- 
>>Dylan Parry
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