Adrian Smith wrote:
>
> okie, here is what i did.
> in /mnt i had the usual
> win_c
> win_d
> type things.
> i went into fstab & changed things about (did this using KDE & graphical interface)
>so that the drives would mount as
> windoze (win_c)
> games (win_d)
> so, that worked.
> if i go into /mnt then go into /windoze then i am on my win98 C: drive.
> the odd thing is, the
> win_c
> win_d
> are still in /mnt also. if i go into them, they are empty.
> what up with this?? can i simply delete these as root? or is there some other
>solution?
Adrian....yes just delete them from /mnt if you want them no
longer.
> second part of this....
> i can read from my fat32 drives, but i can not write to some of them.
> i checked in fstab & mtab. all my fat32 drives are mounted with the "rw" option, so
>this should put them in read-write mode, yes??
>
[snip]
Stay away from the /etc/mtab file, it's dynamically written to
by the os and doesn't take kindly to folks messing around in
it. You probably need to add 'user' and 'umask=0' to the
options field in the vfat lines of your /etc/fstab file.
Alan
