Recognising Partitions

Féliciano Matias feliciano.matias at free.fr
Tue Nov 2 17:15:07 UTC 2004


Le mardi 02 novembre 2004 à 16:58 +0000, David Franks a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> This is my first mail so please excuse me if I do something wrong (and
> let me know so I can do it right next time).
> 
> I installed FC3T3 on my Sony Laptop and found to my delight that it
> recognised the other partitions on my hard drive including Fat32 and
> NTFS partitions. (I run Windows 2000 from one of them). It also mounted
> the Fat32 ones for me and just identified the NTFS ones giving me a
> message that they were not supported even for read only.

http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/fedora3.html

You need to compile the module. There are some potential patent problems
with ntfs.

> 
> I have used up2date to update both kernel and software over the last
> week or so (now up to kernel 649).
> 
> I have just noticed that the automatic recognition and mounting no
> longer happens - though I can of course mount them manually or
> automatically so long as I enter the appropriate lines in fstab.
> 
> Did this automatic facility disappear on purpose or by accident,

Not by accident.

>  and is
> there some way I can get it to start again without having to manually
> add things to fstab?

Read "man fstab-sync" :-)


> 
> Regards,
> 
> David Franks
> 
> 
> 





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