Stuart Jansen wrote:

On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 07:58, Kurt Didenhover wrote:


The filenames are all scrambled and there is no directory structure.
my fstab file looks like this:
/dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip auto noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0



Looks like I was right, and there's good news. Because ro was in the option list, the disk probably wasn't corrupted. (Nautilus likes to added hidden files like thumbnails. Because the kernel was confused about the fstype, this could have caused _real_ confusion.)

Instead of "auto" for the third option, you should probably have
"autofs". Of course, it would be crazy to have much other than a vfat
filesytem on a zip disk (you do want to use it with other computers?),
the safest thing to do is probably to change that "auto" to "vfat".

But first, lets make sure it's going to work.
1) If the disk isn't already unmounted, unmount it.
2) As root, type "mount -t vfat /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip -o ro,mode=666"
3) cd to /mnt/zip and see if things look better
4) If they do, change "auto" to "vfat" and add "mode=666" to the list of
options.
5) Umount, then type "mount /mnt/zip"
6) Check it again.
7) If everything looks good, get rid of the "ro" in the options list and
remount. (You want to be able to write to the disk, right?)


For more detailed information, man fstab and mount.




Okay, I've tried everything you said and then some and still no luck. I've mounted my disks just fine in the cs dept labs and on windows machines. Any other ideas?

--Kurt


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