Re: Mounting Fat 32 (Windows) directory in FC2

[Mac <mrmack1 yahoo com>]

It is truly a fat/fat32 formatted drive.

Mac
--- Clif Smith <fedora cjs226 com> wrote:
> Using vfat as the filesystem only works if the
> filesystem is truly 
> fat/fat32.  Is the filesystem possibly NTFS?
> 
> cjs
> 
> Mac wrote:
> 
> >Thank you for the suggestion but, alas, it did not
> >solve the problem. It still won't automatically
> mount
> >the windows drive in gnome (I can still do it as
> root)
> >and in KDE I can't do it at all.
> >
> >
> >--- Dylan Parry <me dylanparry com> wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>On Sun, 6 Jun 2004 08:28:51 -0700 (PDT), Mac
> >><mrmack1 yahoo com> wrote:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>I have been unable to automatically mount the
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>Windows
> >>    
> >>
> >>>directory in FC2.  When FC2 is loading I get this
> >>>failure message:
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>I have the following in my fstab:
> >>
> >>/dev/hdb1   /mnt/windows   vfat  
> >>auto,users,gid=windows,umask=0007 0 0
> >>
> >>and a group called "windows", which contains all
> the
> >>users that I want to  
> >>be able to write to the Windows partition. I
> >>originally had this in RH7.3  
> >>(8.0, 9, FC1) and it still works now in FC2, so it
> >>seems pretty future  
> >>proof :)
> >>
> >>Of course, you would have to change hdb1 to match
> >>whatever yours is, and  
> >>remember to create a "windows" group with your
> >>username in it...
> >>
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