A file system can be "mounted" on your Linux system interactively or automatically at startup. Then the file system is just as accessible as any other file system on your computer. The command to attach a file or directory is mount, and the command to detach a mounted file or directory is umount (see man mount, man umount). Users should detach from the file system when the resource is no longer needed. The file named /etc/fstab is used to define mountable file systems and devices on startup. Look there to see what file systems can be mounted, where they may be found locally, who may mount them and with what permissions. If a file or directory is specified in /etc/fstab, it may be mounted at startup. Specifications may also be included for devices that you make available for users to mount, such as /mnt/cdrom and /mnt/floppy. Any entry may be mounted without having to specify the several arguments for the mount command, since those arguments can be taken directly from the /etc/fstab file.
Regards, Robert Some days you are the pigeon, some days you are the statue. -----Original Message----- From: Don Gould [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 24 May 2004 11:13 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How do I see the Fat32 patition? That worked... There must be a basic concept idea that I'm missing here but why can't I just see the volume at /dev/hda1 ? Why do I have to mount it? Sorry if this is a dumb ass question. Cheers Don On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 10:33, Nick Rout wrote: > first make a place to mount it > > # mkdir /mnt/win > > then mount it > > #mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/win > > it should pick up the filesystem type automatically, if not re run the > command like: > > #mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/win > > then you will be able to browse the file system under /mnt/win > > it will be mounted with permissions root;root, you can change thit like > this: > > first establish your uid and gid: > > #id don > > if it tells you your uid=1000 and your gid=500 then: > > mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/win -o uid=1000,gid=500 > > On Mon, 24 May 2004 10:22:49 +1200 > Don Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The first patition on the disk is Fat32. > > > > How do I see (mount?) that within rh9? > > > > Cheers Don
