When I first installed SuSE 9.0 it automatically put my Windows partition in /etc/fstab. That was nice because I want to be able to use Open Office in Linux to work on Windows files. More importantly, I need to be able to back up my Windows files with my Linux CD burning software. I recently had to install a new hard drive. And I just noticed that, after re-installing SuSE, the Windows partition was not being mounted. I've been playing around with fstab and with the following configuration I can work on Windows files:
/dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda6 /empty ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda10 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda11 /opt ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda9 /tmp ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda8 /var ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat umask=0 0 0 /dev/hda7 swap swap pri=42 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs noauto 0 0 /dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0 Here are two questions: 1) Does this order look okay? Is /dev/hda1 in the right place? Man fstab says that order is important. 2) Instead of "umask=0" I originally tried "defaults", and then "rw,user." But with these, Open Office couldn't write to the Windows files. (I've haven't tried backing up yet.) Umask=0 is working fine. But here's the question. I've come across an old Mandrake 9.0 fstab and here's the entry for the Windows partition: /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 Is there some advantage to having this sort of complicated entry? Will I screw something up with my simple umask=0? Should I copy the Mandrake entry into my SuSE system? Thank you. Bob _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
