Thanks to David and Nick, I did mkdir /media/windows for both the NTFS and FAT32 partitions and made appropriate adjustments to /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab
After a reboot, I have 2 partitions windows and windows2 on the desktop they both list the directories and files on the FAT32 partition. The outputs of mount and df -h are as follows: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ mount /dev/hda3 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) /dev/hda1 on /media/windows type ntfs (rw,umask=0222) /dev/hda5 on /media/windows type vfat (rw,umask=0222) usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda3 9.2G 1.6G 7.2G 18% / tmpfs 126M 0 126M 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda1 464M 26M 439M 6% /media/windows /dev/hda5 464M 26M 439M 6% /media/windows [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ The size of hda1 is mis-reported as it is about 4 or 5 GB from memory. Please disregard all previous, the problem has just become obvious to me. I renamed the FAT partition "FAT" in /media/, re-booted and now both partitions are mounted at boot up. thanks for the help couldn't have done it without, Woodsey
