Paul, thank you for the umpth time. Sounds very clear I will try it.
Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Registered Linux user 183185
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From: Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2000 3:31 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Names of win partitions - logic?
> On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Jeff Malka wrote:
>
> >I changed the names of their icons on my KDE desktop, but thast name does
> >not stick when I am using say MC or something else. How do you "hook the
> >FSTAB entries back to /mnt/c /mnt/d etc."? :-) (Newbie here)
> >
> >Thank you.
> >
> >> I think this is something that Mandrake just decided on. The first
thing
> >> that I do after an upgrade is check what they came up with, and hook
the
> >> FSTAB entries back to /mnt/c /mnt/d etc.
>
> First of all, open a terminal window.
> Log in as root (su).
> cd yourself to /mnt
> There you create directories for each FAT-based partition:
>
> mkdir c
> mkdir d
> mkdir e
>
> as far as you need them.
>
> then you pull /etc/fstab in an editor (I use vi, but you can use joe,
> pico, kedit, anything).
> In there you locate the lines where /dev/hd<something> is mount-pointed to
> /mnt/WIN_c, /mnt/WIN_d etc.
> Change every /mnt/WIN_<something> to /mnt/<proper-new-dir-you-just-made>
>
> Save the changes (as root again), and (still as root) run
>
> mount -a
>
> That should then remount your FAT partitions to the new directories.
>
> exit from su and see if it worked!
>
> Good luck!
> Paul
>
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