David Irvine wrote: > > On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 11:36, Ben Thorp wrote: > > > > > > >Redhat 7.0 had a nice simple tool for mounting the vfat partiton of a > > >dual boot machine every time it was booted. > > > > >Redhat 7.2 doesn't seem to do that. > > > > >I can find some of the things to edit in fstab and auto.misc but I'd > > >be grateful if someone could tell me which config files I need to > > >change. > > > > You should be able to do this just by changing your /etc/fstab file - just > > set it to 'auto' and it should mount in at bootup. > > echo "/dev/hda2 /mnt/mountpoint vfat defaults 1 2 " >> /etc/fstab && > mount -a > > should do the trick, substitute hda2 for the partition your windows disk > is and /mnt/mountpoint for the place you want to mount it. > > HTH > > David > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk > http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk > --------------------------------------------------------------------
Kyle, Remember that /mnt/mountpoint (or whatever) needs to exist or the line won't work. I have: /dev/hde4 /win95 vfat defaults,umask=000 0 0 In /etc/fstab. I think the extra stuff was to allow any users to write to the disk (as opposed to just root). The thinking behind this was if things were going wrong in linux and files were getting messed with, what happened to my windows partition was the least of my problems. Thanks, Allan -- Never pet a burning dog. -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
