mount Win partitions

[Kostas Sfakiotakis]

Greetings Anne,

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Saturday 18 March 2006 23:08, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:
> 

>>fstab is a plain text file . Most of the configuration files are also
>>plain text files .Now ,  you may use even Write from OpenOffice if you wish BUT you have to
>>remember to save it as a PLAIN TEXT file . That's why you succeeded with
>>Kwrite , Kwrite didn't altered the format of the file so it was ok .
>>
> 
> I've  never been convinced that 'plain text' from a word processor is really 
> plain text.  I think that once, long ago, I experimented and found that many 
> text editors wouldn't open a file that had been created that way.  Of course 
> things may be different now, but I wouldn't risk it.

Remember /etc/fstab  is a configuration file that is being parsed during 
the
boot sequence , if  something goes wrong will it then you might very well
end will a kernel panic ( Kernel being unable to find it's root 
partition and
the rest of the files needed ) . So i would second you on that especially
for configuration files . That's the reason i initially proposed good old
vi and not a GUI text editor word proccessor .

> 
> The biggest problem for a newbie is that it may not be clear which apps are 
> indeed text editors and not word processors.

Well i have to admitt that i am a newbie in that matter too . Since i don't
really know where a text editor ends and a word proccessor starts .


> Anne

Kostas