ARRRGGGHHH!!!! HELP::: My fstab file

[bobthebullet990]

OK, so i have downloaded ntfs support kernel in my redhat 9.0. This is great because i can now mount my ntfs disk using the command:

[root@localhost mnt]# mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/winxp -t ntfs
[root@localhost mnt]# ls /mnt/winxp
AUDIO BOOKS   CD IMAGES   ETOMI  IO.SYS        MATTS MUSIC     MSDOS.SYS  NTDETECT.COM  SNES ROMS                  WEBSITE
AUTOEXEC.BAT  CONFIG.SYS  GAMES  K750i         MATTS PICTURES  MSOCache   ntldr         System Volume Information
boot.ini      EMAILS      ICONS  MATTS MOVIES  MATTS WORK      N64        RECYCLER      USMT.TMP

However, I want to connect to this disk at startup, so i have edited my fstab file, it now looks like:

LABEL=/                 /                       ext3             defaults                             1 1
LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3             defaults                             1 2
none                    /dev/pts                devpts gid=5,    mode=620                             0 0
none                    /proc                   proc             defaults                             0 0
none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs            defaults                             0 0
/dev/hda5               swap                    swap             defaults                             0 0
/dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto             noauto,owner,kudzu                   0 0
/dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              udf,             iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro        0 0
/dev/cdrom1             /mnt/cdrom1             udf,             iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro        0 0
LABEL=winxp /dev/hdb1   /mnt/winxp              ntfs             ro                                   1 0
LABEL=usb   /dev/sda1   /mnt/usb                vfat             -t

To me, this looks fine! However, when i type: mount winxp, I get the following errors:

[root@localhost mnt]# mount winxp
[mntent]: line 3 in /etc/fstab is bad
[mntent]: line 8 in /etc/fstab is bad
[mntent]: line 9 in /etc/fstab is bad
[mntent]: line 10 in /etc/fstab is bad
[mntent]: warning: no final newline at the end of /etc/fstab
[mntent]: line 11 in /etc/fstab is bad; rest of file ignored
mount: /dev/hdb1 already mounted or /mnt/winxp busy
mount: according to mtab, /dev/hdb1 is already mounted on /mnt/winxp

The same goes for the case when i try to mount my usb pendrive, i get the output:

[mntent]: line 3 in /etc/fstab is bad
[mntent]: line 8 in /etc/fstab is bad
[mntent]: line 9 in /etc/fstab is bad
[mntent]: line 10 in /etc/fstab is bad
[mntent]: warning: no final newline at the end of /etc/fstab
[mntent]: line 11 in /etc/fstab is bad; rest of file ignored
mount: can't find usb in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

BUT: there is the directorys usb and winxp in my /mnt directory:

[root@localhost mnt]# ls /mnt
cdrom  cdrom1  documents  floppy  usbstick  winxp

If anyone could help that would be v.much appriciated! ...I am fairly new to linux, so please bear with me!!! ...I just dont want to have to type the full mount commands for my usbstick and winxp disk whenever i want to access data on them!!!!!









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[smolloy]

I'm not sure but the "LABEL=..." comments in those two entries don't look quite right to me. This is my ntfs entry,

/dev/hda1               /mnt/windows/C  ntfs            ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0

[darkplayer]

I'm not sure but the "LABEL=..." comments in those two entries don't look quite right to me. This is my ntfs entry,

/dev/hda1               /mnt/windows/C  ntfs            ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0

That helped solve my problem