Impossible to mount a partition on second hard disk

[Michael E. Webster]

On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 06:54, malik malik wrote:
> you can not view the fstab file in /etc. 
>  
> you can directly open it by run the following cmd,
>  
>             gedit /etc/fstab  
>  
>  
>  
> malik.
> 
> Marc <contactium at safe-mail.net> wrote:
>         First sorry for my english.
>         It's my first installation of the Core 2. 
>         I have a problem because I cannot mount a partition on my
>         second hard
>         disk. 
>         When I make a mount /dev/hdb7 (or other) the answer is...
>         mount: cannot
>         locate /dev/hdb7 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab 
>         When I look in /etc it does not have there a fstab or mtab. 
>         
>         Thank you for your answers.
>         
>         Marc.
>         

Malik,

Why exactly can you not view the /etc/fstab?

$ ls -la /etc/fstab
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1394 Aug 18 03:46 /etc/fstab

The default permissions say you can.


Mike.