On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 07:58, Kurt Didenhover wrote: > Stuart Jansen wrote: > > >Does it have the right filenames and directory structure? My first > >impression is that it might be mounting as the wrong format. > > > > > > > The filenames are all scrambled and there is no directory structure. > my fstab file looks like this: > /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip auto > noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
Looks like I was right, and there's good news. Because ro was in the option list, the disk probably wasn't corrupted. (Nautilus likes to added hidden files like thumbnails. Because the kernel was confused about the fstype, this could have caused _real_ confusion.) Instead of "auto" for the third option, you should probably have "autofs". Of course, it would be crazy to have much other than a vfat filesytem on a zip disk (you do want to use it with other computers?), the safest thing to do is probably to change that "auto" to "vfat". But first, lets make sure it's going to work. 1) If the disk isn't already unmounted, unmount it. 2) As root, type "mount -t vfat /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip -o ro,mode=666" 3) cd to /mnt/zip and see if things look better 4) If they do, change "auto" to "vfat" and add "mode=666" to the list of options. 5) Umount, then type "mount /mnt/zip" 6) Check it again. 7) If everything looks good, get rid of the "ro" in the options list and remount. (You want to be able to write to the disk, right?) For more detailed information, man fstab and mount. -- Stuart Jansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> #define FALSE 0 /* This is the naked Truth */ #define TRUE 1 /* and this is the Light */ -- mailto.c _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
