Civileme....I haven't had any of the problems that you describe
since I changed my fstab setting to defaults on that line.
Alan
Civileme wrote:
>
> Audrey Beck wrote:
>
> > Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> > >
> > > I've noticed two small problems with 7.0 since I installed it.
> > >
> > > The first one is concerning an icon on the desktop called
> > > Dos_sda1 and its associated fstab entry. When I clicked on the
> > > icon to open it the system locked, cursor was stopped dead and
> > > none of the ususal ctl-alt combinations would do anything. A
> > > reset was needed. After a reboot the same problem occurred when
> > > navigating to the /mnt/DOS_sda1/ directory with kfm. When I
> > > attempted to open the /mnt/DOS_sda1/ directory with kfm the
> > > system locked up again. So I tried navigating to it in a
> > > console using cd, no problem here, all worked as it should. The
> > > fstab entry looked like this:
> > >
> > > /dev/sda1 /mnt/DOS_sda1 vfat user,exec,conv=auto 0 0
> > >
> > > I changed it to:
> > >
> > > /dev/sda1 /mnt/DOS_sda1 vfat defaults 0 0
> > >
> > > and the problem went away.
> >
> > I have this in 6.1 for hda1. I found that if I didn't auto-mount it, but
> > mounted it at the console when I logged in, it would work fine under
> > kde. My other partition don't have this problem.
> >
> > >
> > > The second one is concerning the Colors function in the Desktop
> > > section of the KDE Control Center. When I attempt to install a
> > > color scheme different than the default (yellow title bar) it
> > > does not change, it stays the same. I cannot get rid of the
> > > yellow title bar.
> > >
> > > Alan
>
> Hmmmm,
>
> Turns out these DOS mounts prepared cause a number of problems, from
> sensitizing kfm to the existence of .directory files in windows
> subdirectories to causing StarOffice to be unable to access files in these
> partitions (capitalization of partition names).
>
> I have users who have old windows files and the mount points I routinely
> changed to
>
> /home/username/mywindows
>
> with gid and uid set to the user's number, rw access, and most of the same
> options chosen in the creation of /DOS_hdax. The problem I have is the
> .directory files freezing kfm, and it happens in 6.1 and, by a report from
> Ron Stodden on Oxygen Beta 5, in that as well. I have heard there is a
> mysterious and secret arcane setting for /etc/fstab that will prevent the
> manufacture of dotfiles in the partition, and I wish I could find more
> information on it, cause every time someone here drags a folder to the
> windows partition on his desktop, I have a nice little hunt to eliminate
> the files created that freeze kfm, and I have to listen to "Why did we
> convert to linux anyway? Bring back Microsloth!"
>
> Civileme
