Quoting Frank Trenkamp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Monday 12 February 2001 11:21, Hanno Böttcher wrote: > > I think you mean to mount it on startup, right? So you have to edit > > /etc/fstab. > > uhm, I think, actually he meant what he said. ;) I think Robin wants to > access his Windows partition by not mounting it at startup, but rather only > when needed, right?
Well, I too assumed they wanted it at startup. After all, it said: I have a win98 partition on /dev/hdb1. I want to mount that automatically, instead of explicitly using 'mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /win98'. I looked at the docs for autofs but found it confusing. How do I do it? I assumed they asked about autofs because they had assumed that's how it *had* to be done. Now I've never used automounting at all. What benefit does it confer when used with a fixed partition? (I can see the virtues with removable disks and remote machines like your NFS mount below.) > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# cat /etc/auto.mnt > gamont -rw,no_root_squash,rsize=4096,wsize=4096 gamont:/home > win -fstype=vfat,uid=0,gid=100,umask=002 :/dev/hda2 > cdrom -fstype=iso9660,ro,uid=0,gid=100,umask=002 :/dev/scd0 > floppy -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,umask=002,uid=0,gid=100 :/dev/fd0 Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.