What have I done now seems weird

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On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 07:14, Peter Cague wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I followed the instructions as per ntfs drives and did all the command
> line stuff and they worked fine but when I put the command lines into my
> fstab the come up as bad lines
> 
[snip]
> /dev/hda1               /mnt/Windoz          -t   ntfs -r -o unmask=0222
> /dev/hda2               /mnt/Bits            -t   ntfs -r -o unmask=0222
> 
> if I run the two above lines at the prompt they work?

The format of an /etc/fstab line is not the same as the format of the
command-line arguments to "mount".

Try:
/dev/hda1               /mnt/Windoz          ntfs  ro,unmask=0222 0 0
/dev/hda2               /mnt/Bits            ntfs  ro,unmask=0222 0 0

You should probably also familiarize yourself with the fstab format (man
fstab).

FWIW this line works for me:

/dev/hdc1               /mnt/win_c              ntfs    noauto,owner,ro
0 0