Cause of disappearing mount points in FC5

[François Patte]

Deepak Shrestha a écrit :
>> Hi,
>>
>> what could be the cause of disappearing mounted drives? I have a
>> "vfat" & "ntfs" drive mounted in my FC5 box but sometime after
>> booting,
This is not very clear according to your further information: did you
mount your windows partition manually, then reboot? In that case there
is no mystery at all: if you want your partitions mounted permanently,
you need to add this to the fstab.

>> the mount point disappears suddenly without any trace. I am
>> suspecting the hardware problem but when I boot from windows these
>> drive is working fine. Have anyone came across similar problem? any
>> advice?
>>
>> Thanks!
> 
> 
> Further information,
> 
> I mounted the drive manually as root and it mounted without any complain.
> I guess the drive is mounting successfully after it suddenly disappers
> means somthing is causing it to unmount automatically. What could
> cause that?
> Any suggestions please?
> 


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