On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, you wrote:
> Try the command this way
>
> mount -t vfat /dev/hdax /mnt/dos (rw,user)
>
> The user option may make it available to a user. I won't bet on it
> though as I'd be suspcious about losing the setting if you logged out as
> root and logged back in as user. My own preference would be to put the
> necessary instructions in /etc/fstab so that this is taken care of
> automatically by mounting it for you on bootup or at least making it
> user mountable if not pre-mounted. You may also want to consider adding
> the option 'conv=auto' in case you're dealing with plain text files.
> The way DOS and Unix handle the end of a line are signifigantly
> different to cause you a headache if you don't have the appropriate
> changes made when moving the file from MSDOS to Linux or vice versa.
>
True....I was merely giving him the command to mount it "at-will" :-)
Not everone is going to want to have it AS available as it would be
in fstab. :-)
