On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 09:41:57PM -0500, Karthik Vishwanath wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if lines like these in /etc/fstab make sense:
> --------------
> /dev/hdd /mnt/zip vfat noauto,rw,user,nosuid,sync
> /dev/hdd /mnt/zip msdos noauto,rw,user,nosuid,sync
> --------------
I don't think you can do it quite that way. As far as I know the
second column (the one that designates the mount point) has to be
different for each entry. Otherwise mount probably wouldn't know
which entry to use. There is supposed to be an option of auto for
filesystem type, but it never worked for me so I've ignored it.
In this case, I would just dispense with the second one - I believe
you can mount an MSDOS partition as type vfat. Something else is
you aren't specifying a partition here - without that I don't think
this can work. I'm guessing you are doing this for a Zip drive - I'd
try this with mine but it died a few weeks ago. Unless you have
repartitioned your Zip disks they are mounted as partition 4 - i.e.
/dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip vfat <insert options here> 0 0
Oh yeah ... those 0's at the end there I think are also needed. I don't
remember what they are for, but I do seem to remember that they are
more or less required.
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