Re: [newbie] fstab & mtab & left overs...

2000-10-04 Thread Alan Shoemaker
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

Re: [newbie] fstab & mtab & left overs...

2000-10-04 Thread Larry Marshall
> 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

Re: [newbie] fstab & mtab & left overs...

2000-10-04 Thread Larry Marshall
>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 st

Re: [newbie] fstab & mtab & left overs...

2000-10-04 Thread Michael
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.

Re: [newbie] fstab & mtab & left overs...

2000-10-04 Thread Tom Brinkman
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 i

Re: [newbie] fstab & mtab & left overs...

2000-10-04 Thread Fraser Kendall
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 in

[newbie] fstab & mtab & left overs...

2000-10-04 Thread Adrian Smith
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