[newbie] fstab mtab left overs...
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? 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?? thanks much Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] fstab mtab left overs...
you did what? - Original Message - From: Adrian Smith To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 3:44 PM Subject: [newbie] fstab mtab left overs... okie, here is what i did.in /mnt i had the usual win_cwin_dtype things.i went into fstab changed things about (did this using KDE graphical interface) so that the drives would mount aswindoze (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_cwin_dare 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?second part of thisi 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??thanks muchAdrian Smith'de telepone dudeTelecom Dept.x 7042[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] fstab mtab left overs...
On Wed, 04 Oct 2000, you 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? Yes, delete them, you're not using them anymore 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?? Here's 'fstab' line for my Windoze drive. I moved it out of '/mnt/', to a dir named '/c'. I can read/write/exe anything on that fat 32 partition (13.6 gig) as user. /dev/hda1 /c vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0 I've seen several different 'fstab' lines for r/w/x a Windoze drive, but this is the lien that has always worked for me. It's also the way 7.x versions of Mandrake have installed. *Do Not* mess with 'mtab' ! Similar to your setup, I had a storage partition for .jpg's, formatted fat32 so either OS could use them. I used to mount it as '/d'. Fat32 wouldn't let me put more than ~18,000 files in one dir tho. When I installed 7.2b3 a few days ago, I changed the format for this partion to ext2, and named it '/stor' rather than '/d'. It now has ~23,000 .jpg's in it ;) -- Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] fstab mtab left overs...
I use ReiserFS for data storage. Some directories have over 100,000 files in them. ext2 worked but a directory listing took about a month to generate. Also on my new server everything but /boot is ReiserFS and the stability due to crashes, power loss, etc is great and everything runs very quickly. *^*^*^* Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sungod robes on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you? -- Real Genius On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wed, 04 Oct 2000, you 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? Yes, delete them, you're not using them anymore 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?? Here's 'fstab' line for my Windoze drive. I moved it out of '/mnt/', to a dir named '/c'. I can read/write/exe anything on that fat 32 partition (13.6 gig) as user. /dev/hda1 /c vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0 I've seen several different 'fstab' lines for r/w/x a Windoze drive, but this is the lien that has always worked for me. It's also the way 7.x versions of Mandrake have installed. *Do Not* mess with 'mtab' ! Similar to your setup, I had a storage partition for .jpg's, formatted fat32 so either OS could use them. I used to mount it as '/d'. Fat32 wouldn't let me put more than ~18,000 files in one dir tho. When I installed 7.2b3 a few days ago, I changed the format for this partion to ext2, and named it '/stor' rather than '/d'. It now has ~23,000 .jpg's in it ;) -- Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] fstab mtab left overs...
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? Yes, and this demonstrates a problem with configuration via GUI tools; you are one step removed from knowing what has occurred. When you set up "windoze" as a mount point, not only was fstab modified but a "mkdir /mnt/windoze" command was issued. You see, without an existing directory to serve as a mount point, the code within fstab will simply generate an error. so yes, you should be able to delete the win_c and win_d directories. second part of this i can read from my fat32 drives, but i can not write to some of them. As a user you probably don't have write permission. This is the default on such partitions as a protection. You can change that of course. 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?? Huh? and how did you determine this. You wouldn't see "rw" anywhere. If fstab carries a umask=0,0,0 or something similar then it's unclear why you can't write to your DOS drive but your questions don't suggest that you understand the process sufficiently to have interpreted that syntax if it were there. Sorry if my conclusions are incorrect. Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] fstab mtab left overs...
Here's 'fstab' line for my Windoze drive. I moved it out of '/mnt/', to a dir named '/c'. I can read/write/exe anything on that Not a bad idea Tom. I just did: ln -s /mnt/windows win with the link in my home directory. Seems to work. Any reason not to do it that way? One of the reasons I did it was that if I want to do something like make a backup image of my root file system I can just do a umount -a and then do the backup without picking up the DOS partitions. Opnions? /dev/hda1 /c vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0 I've seen several different 'fstab' lines for r/w/x a Windoze drive, but this is the lien that has always worked for me. It's also the way Ah...I've never seen any r/w/x syntax in any fstab I've worked. Like you, umask is what does it. It also seems to be what Linux does...at least it has on my systems :-) them. I used to mount it as '/d'. Fat32 wouldn't let me put more than ~18,000 files in one dir tho. When I installed 7.2b3 a few That's interesting. One of those "gotchas". Thanks for the info. Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] fstab mtab left overs...
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? Adrianyes 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
