On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 23:22, The Other wrote:
> On Monday 02 June 2003 10:14 pm, The Other wrote:
> > 6/02/03
> >
> > Hello Aldofo,
> >
> > > Mount it as a vfat file system. Here is my /etc/fstab entry for
> > > the fat drive:
> > >
> > > /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat
> > > iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
> >
> > I'm totally new to Linux. So bear with me.
> >
> > 1. I don't have a directory /etc/fstab on my system. So I don't
> > know how to make a comparable entry.
>
>
> Okay, I just realized /etc/fstab is a file. I opened it with KWrite
> to see what's in it and all of the Windows drives are showing up as
> "vfat" drives; as in:
>
> dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0
> /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0
> /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0
> /dev/hda6 /mnt/win_e vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0
> /dev/hda7 /mnt/win_f vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0
>
> This looks okay. Is it?
>
> What else to try?
The only thing missing is "umask=0". Look at my line. However, I think
you should be able to see your FAT drives.
Try
ls /mnt/win_c
If you don't get a file listing, it might be that the drive is not
mounted. Try to mount it with:
mount /mnt/win_c
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