Re: Editing the fstab!!!!!

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Andrew Konosky wrote:
> I want to mount one of my logical windows drives with all my music on 
> it, but it keeps dissapearing! I had this working fine in RH8, but now 
> in RH9 it doesnt want to work at all!!
>
> I went into the fstab and put in
>
> /dev/hda6   /mnt/Media     vfat    auto,owner,kudzu   0 0
>
> now when I manually mount it thru kdiskfree it puts an icon on my 
> desktop. When I reboot the icon is gone, but hda6 is still mounted. I 
> reboot again and its completely gone! I look in the fstab and the fstab 
> has reverted to just before I added hda6. How do I permanently mount it? 
> Why does it dissapear? I can't seem to enable write access to it either. 
> Only lets me have write access as root.

The "owner" option doesn't exist for fat or vfat.  You should specify
"auto,user,rw" for the options.

> Also, I have to manually mount my CD's everytime I want to use them. If 
> I set the CD-ROM and CD-ROM1 to "auto," then I can't unmount it unless 
> Im root. So, in order to eject the CD, I have to log in as root. How do 
> I automount them at start-up with user-level permissions instead of 
> root-only?

Make sure you have a line in /etc/fstab like:

/dev/cdrom    /mnt/cdrom     iso9660  noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0

and a line in /etc/auto.misc that looks like:

cd    -fstype=iso9660,ro,nosuid,nodev   :/dev/cdrom

and make sure that autofs starts at boot time (redhat-config-services).
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