Re: Mount Other filesystems

[Maynard Kuona <knxmay001 mail uct ac za>]

But Mandrake and others do it, so it must be relative harmless because I
do not see complaints about it. Its a easy enough to do it in fstab, but
I think it should be available on install. I thought anyoe could do
VFAT. I mean, mkfs can make FAT partitions. I do not use NTFS because I
want my other partitions to be available under Linux.

On a side note, is there any such thing as ext3 drivers for windows so I
could maybe access these partitions under Windows.

On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 04:29, Chris Hillman wrote:
> Maynard Kuona wrote:
> 
> >I think this is the biggest omission (OK maybe not), but I think Redhat
> >needs to configure itself to automatically mount FAT partitions without
> >requiring the user do that.
> >
> I think this may have more to do with FAT32 support being technically in 
> *Alpha* stage (or at least that was the warning I saw before installing 
> rhgb) ... though I have not heard of problems with FAT32.
> 
> >In fact, it should mount any partitions it
> >recognizes automatically, and give them names in some determined way.
> >
> That may stir up some controversy... especially if it any corruption of 
> data occurred as a result.
> 
> >This could always be changed in fstab. It really irritates that after
> >installing Redhat 9, I have to mount the partitions manually. I know I
> >can do it during install, but its still too damn hard.
> >
> I think that is the hard part... ease of use, or ensuring other 
> filesystems will stay safe.
> 
> >And a graphical client to set up partitions wouldn't hurt either.
> >
> Agreed... isn't there a way we could run disk druid post install to 
> replace using fdisk and mkfs?.. and have it push changes to the fstab?
> 
> -Chris
> 
> 
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