Cause of disappearing mount points in FC5

[John Wendel]

Deepak Shrestha wrote:
>> 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, 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?
> 


Have you looked in /var/log/messages? Any disk problems that cause the 
disk to be unmounted will be logged here.

Regards,

John