mount Win partitions

[Kostas Sfakiotakis]

Greetings Anne ,

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Friday 17 March 2006 01:51, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> 
>>I'll give it a try. Why not a gui text editor like gedit? Remember we're
>>trying to make Linux usable by nongeeks. Someone tried to teach me vi
>>once--aaaarrgh!

I always use vi to edit config files . I don't know how to use vi . Only 
just
a couple of commands ( insert , for insterting text , wq for Save and Exit
and q! for exit ) and that was all i needed .


> 
> I don't know why that was Kostas' recommendation.  

Vi knows only plain text file ( for as far as i know ) so even by accident
i can't possibly save in another format , so i can't possibly damage the
file beyond recovery . Remember if  fstab can't be parsed properly you
will possibly get a kernel panic , because the kernel will not be able to
access the root partition .

Of course it must be a text
> editor, not a word processor, but I often use kwrite for such edits and never 
> had a problem.


Well sorry for answering so late . There is only one reason .

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 .

> When you've done it, try 
> 
> mount -a
> 
> in a root console.  That should mount  everything is fstab without rebooting.
> 
> Anne
> 

Kind Regards,
   Kostas