Quick help mounting a Fat32 partition

[designbydave]

hay guys, I have 2 drives in this machine, one with Fedora Core 3, and the other windows xp pro on a fat32 partition

i can get the drive to mount in Fedora with:

mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /mnt/windows

!. how can I get full read/write permissions to the drectory?
2. how can I get it to automatically mount on start up?
3. how can I unmount it?

thanks a bunch

[Vergil83]

hay guys, I have 2 drives in this machine, one with Fedora Core 3, and the other windows xp pro on a fat32 partition

i can get the drive to mount in Fedora with:

mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /mnt/windows

!. how can I get full read/write permissions to the drectory?
2. how can I get it to automatically mount on start up?
3. how can I unmount it?

thanks a bunch

1) change /etc/fstab with the option user
2) change /etc/fstab with the option auto
3) umount /dev/hdb1

my noauto fat32 from /etc/fstab

/dev/hda1       /mnt/media        vfat        noauto,users,rw,exec  1  0

more info on fstab man

[jmanjeff]

Change in /etc/ftab as root
Change the mount points to what yours is to be


fat32

/dev/hdb5 /mnt/fat vfat umask=0000,dmask=0000,uid=0002,gid=users,users 0 0

NTSF

/dev/hda1 /mnt/xp ntfs users,owner,ro,umask=000 0 0

[zeeone]

Winblows XP on a FAT 32??????????????

[sdousley]

hay guys, I have 2 drives in this machine, one with Fedora Core 3, and the other windows xp pro on a fat32 partition

i can get the drive to mount in Fedora with:

mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /mnt/windows

!. how can I get full read/write permissions to the drectory?
2. how can I get it to automatically mount on start up?
3. how can I unmount it?

thanks a bunch

If you want FULL access for all users, add this line to your fstab for the partition:

/dev/hdb1 /mnt/windows vfat umask=0000,dmask=0000,uid=0002,gid=users,users  0 0

That will set up all files with full read/write/execute permissions, and the same for directories

[Vergil83]

Winblows XP on a FAT 32??????????????

Um, yes. I would rather use an filesystem that people know how to use than an windows creation that is a closed secert. If I have windows on a fat32 and it has a crash, I may able to save my files. I can't with nfts

[sdousley]

whtever winblows i use on my box goes on a FAT32 partition, because i KNOW that i will be able to read/write to it that way from linux. If linux gets read/write access to NTFS partitions, i might think about convertin to ntfs, but i know read/write is still a bit shaky..... it works, but a bit didgy atm (or at least that;s the latest i heard)

[designbydave]

If you want FULL access for all users, add this line to your fstab for the partition:

ok what the heck is fstab? is that a configuration file or something? how do I add that line to it?


i did windows xp on fat32 just so i could mount it to Linux. I read some stuff about complications reading/writing to ntfs in linux, so I figured fat32 would be less complicated. This machine i am running is primarily my "Learning-to-do-stuff-in-linux-box." Windows is just there so i can do linux stuff with it. Normally, for windows 2000/xp i would always install it to an ntfs partition.

thanks for the help

[dylunio]

Your fstab in /etc it is /etc/fstab it is a file which says which partitions should be mounted at boot.

You can edit it in the command line with

su
[rootpass]
pico /etc/fstab

edit it (add then line) and then save with Ctrl+O

dylunio

[Flatline]

fstab is indeed a configuration file. It's in your /etc folder. Fire up your favorite text editor, open /etc/fstab, and add the line from above.