Mounting windows partition

[Kostas Sfakiotakis]

administrator tootai wrote:
> Kostas Sfakiotakis a écrit :
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>>> Extract from my fstab
>>>
>>> /dev/hda1               /dos            vfat            
>>> defaults,users,gid=6,umask=7            0 0
>>> /dev/fd0                /floppy         auto            
>>> users,noauto                            0 0
>>> /dev/cdrom              /cdrom          iso9660         
>>> ro,users,auto                           0 0
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>> The only thing is that the cdrom will never get mounted at boot time
>> unless there is a cdrom in the cdrom drive , same deal for  the floppy .
>> The magic here is the word "auto" which says automatically mount the
>> device specified in the first column  to the mount point specified in the
>> second column .
> 
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> You tried to mound cdrom or floppy without support inside? 

All i wanted to say is that the cd mount willl fail unless there is a cd in
the cdrom drive , i always have empty cdrom drives at boot time .


You can't. If
> you check my sample, the "magic" word auto is there for cd and only work 
> if cd is inserted (I always have the same CD inserted, so that's ok for 
> me). Floppy is not automatically mounted, so I can leave one in the 
> driver without being bored by a mount stage. If you want to have it 
> automagically mounted when you insert floppy or cd, take a look at 
> autofs/automount.
>