On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 23:15 +0100, John Cooper wrote: > On 12/05/11 21:19, Peter Merchant wrote: > > I have a little problem, and I am not getting anywhere. ---- > > > > mount: mount point /media/TV does not exist > > I think it is telling you /media/TV does not exist! > > /media is normally automounted and creates the directory like > /media/cdrom . You normally use /mnt for manual mounts. It doesn't > really matter which so either do > > sudo mkdir /media/TV > or > sudo mkdir /mnt/TV > > then > > sudo mount /dev/sdb5 /media/TV > or > sudo mount /dev/sdb5 /mnt/TV > > Which ever you chose then add to /etc/fstab > > > /dev/sdb5 /media/TV vfat defaults 1 2 > or > /dev/sdb5 /mnt/TV vfat defaults 1 2 > > > John. Thanks john. This is what I was going to investigate this morning - How to create a mount point. My reference book 'Practical Unix' 960 pages has a bit about mount points but not the right stuff. Looks good on the bookshelf though.
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