Chris....Off the top of my head I remember that when the name of
the directory that served as the mount point for windows
partitions contained uppercase letters and you used kfm to try
and access these directories (if you accessed them in a console,
this didn't happen) that the system would lock up (even if you'd
just navigate with kfm to the /mnt directory and the mount point
directory in the /mnt directory that had the upper case
characters in its name was being inhabited by a mounted windows
partition). The thread was about user access to windows
partitions, so also to make the partitions writeable by users an
addition of umask=0 to the corresponding line in /etc/fstab was
needed as well as getting rid of the uppercase characters in the
mount point directory.
Alan
Necrotica wrote:
>
> Alan,
>
> Interesting that you brought this up. I just noticed today that my system
> seems a little flaky when accessing my Windows partion under Linux. It has
> been locking up solid and the only common thread I could think of was that I
> was accessing my Windows partition at the time.
>
> Based on your quoted email I am going to change the name of the mount point -
> seems like a strange solution, but I'm used to strange after the vga=0x0301
> kernel parameter riddle. :P
>
> Do you remember anything else from that discussion thread a couple of months
> ago that you can add? Thanks...
>
> -Chris
>
> On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> > Civileme....I thought that there was a problem when the mount
> > point contained uppercase characters? At least this is what I
> > remember when we were discussing the prevention of lockups when
> > accessing vfat partitions a couple of months ago.
> >
> > Alan
