[NTLUG:Discuss] fstab entry for a Windoze partition

[terry]

Wayne Dahl wrote:

>On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 00:28, terry wrote:
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>>Wayne Dahl wrote:
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>>>Hi guys.  I just installed the latest version of Wine (wine-20030508) on
>>>my computer running RH 8.0 and noticed that it didn't recognize the
>>>Windoze partition because it didn't find an entry for it in the fstab. 
>>>I've wondered about that before...what is the correct entry for a Win98
>>>partition in the fstab?  
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>>Assuming your MS Windows partition is hda1:
>>/dev/hda1   /mnt/hda1   vfat rw,defaults 0 0
>>should do it.
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>Ok, I tried that and on bootup, when Linux tries to mount the local
>filesystem, I get an error that the mountpoint /mnt/hda1 does not exit. 
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It's prolly telling you that mountpoint  /mnt/windows  does not exist, 
so try:
# mkdir /mnt/windows
# chmod 2777 /mnt/windows

Then try mounting it manually:
$ mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows
$ ls /mnt/windows      (to test, and see if your reading your windows 
partition)
 

>When I attempt to mount it from a shell, this is the error I get...
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>[root at crtntx1-ar6-4-64-082-233 dev]# mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1
>mount: mount point /mnt/hda1 does not exist
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Again, it's telling you that  /mnt/hda1  does not exist.
(you have to create the directory first, [so that it can become a mount 
point])
ie.
# mkdir /mnt/hda1
# chmod 2777 /mnt/hda1  (so that anyone can read and write to it)

(You can name your mount point [directory] what ever you want, that's up 
to you.)

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>>From one of the books I have, I modified the above fstab entry to look
>like this...
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>/dev/hda1	/mnt/windows	vfat	defaults,rw 0 0
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>and I still get the error message that the mountpoint /mnt/windows does
>not exit.
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>What am I doing wrong here?  The entry is in the fstab, is there
>someplace else you have to create the actual mountpoints?  The way I
>understand it, the mountpoint is the file you actually want to mount and
>on a Windoze box, if I wanted to mount the root directory, what would I
>use for the mountpoint?  I understand /mnt/windows (would be the windows
>directory) or /mnt/my_files (a directory called my_files), etc.
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>Again, any help would be appreciated.  I can't believe I'm not getting
>this.  :P
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>Thanks again, 
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>Wayne
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