On Sat, 27 May 2000, Rich Howarth wrote about, RE: DOS Partiton in Linux:
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> > On Sat, 27 May 2000, Rich Howarth wrote:
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> > /dev/hda1 /mnt msdos exec,dev,suid,rw 1 1
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> > Still speculating, but from what I know of RedHat, I would say
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> > /dev/hda1 /mnt/msdos vfat rw,user
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> > I don't know why you would want device special files on it, or want to
> > be able to execute programs directly from it - unless you will copy some
> > linux executables to it and run them.
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> I was just sticking with the original format, but making it sensible!
> Clearly it would generally make sense to mount the fielsystem under
> something like /mnt/msdos rather than /mnt but that isn't crucial to the
> mount working. 'dev' might not be overly useful, agreed. Ditto 'suid'.
> Again, 'user' would be good - the fewer commands one types as root, the
> fewer screw-ups you tend to end up with. However, if this file system is
> being mounted on boot then 'user' probably isn't needed.
If the partition is to be mounted at boot, then simply use 'defaults'
/dev/hda1 /dosc vfat defaults 1 1
It can be mounted almost anywhere, providing the directory is create
beforehand.
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