On Tuesday 03 Jun 2003 4:22 am, The Other wrote: > On Monday 02 June 2003 10:14 pm, The Other wrote: > > 6/02/03 > > > > Hello Aldofo, > > > > > Mount it as a vfat file system. Here is my /etc/fstab entry for > > > the fat drive: > > > > > > /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat > > > iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 > > > > I'm totally new to Linux. So bear with me. > > > > 1. I don't have a directory /etc/fstab on my system. So I don't > > know how to make a comparable entry. > > Okay, I just realized /etc/fstab is a file. I opened it with > KWrite to see what's in it and all of the Windows drives are > showing up as "vfat" drives; as in: > > dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0 > /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 > /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 > /dev/hda6 /mnt/win_e vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 > /dev/hda7 /mnt/win_f vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 > > This looks okay. Is it? > > What else to try?
Seems to me that the partitions are mountedm but not with user accessbility. You need to add 'user' as in: /dev/hdf6 /mnt/OldData vfat user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0 If you don't have rights in that directory/partition it will not display the contents. Anne
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