reading a 32-fat HD with fedora

[umberto rossi]

Il sab, 2006-01-28 alle 14:50, Jeff Vian ha scritto:
> On Sat, 2006-01-28 at 14:07 +0100, umberto rossi wrote:
> > Il sab, 2006-01-28 alle 12:41, Tim ha scritto:
> > 
> > I just inserted this line:
> > 
> > /dev/hdb1		/mnt/home/berto/ubik	vfat 	defaults, user	0 0 
>                          ^^^^^                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> 1)  I don't really think the directory /mnt/home/berto/ubik exists
> unless you explicitly created it.  This part must point to an already
> existing location.

I created it a coupla days ago, before using the mount command. It's
already there.

> 2)  You CANNOT have spaces in the options portion of the line.  That
> part should be "defaults,user" if you really want the defaults part.  In
> most cases "user" has the same effect.
> 
> Read the man page for fstab to find out what each field does.  These are
> data fields separated by white space, and there must be exactly 6 fields
> on each line in fstab.

I see. I guess that's the real problem. A command with 7 fields is
definitely too much. I'll erase the blank space and see what happens.