Mount Drives

[Keith G. Robertson-Turner]

On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 23:58:38 -0500, Ryan Duff wrote:

> Ok, I figured out how to do it under gnome (I was used to kde). I needed
> to figure out the drive path first /dev/hda6, but now that I got the
> link on the desktop, I can't open it and browse it, I get an "associate
> application" message.
> 
> On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 23:46:44 -0500, Ryan Duff <ryan at duff-duff.net>
> wrote:
> 
>> I've switched from Mandrake 8.1 to Fedora Core 1. I haven't had any
>> experience w/ red hat before and in drake you could just right click on
>> the desktop to mount the drive. How would I go about mounting it under
>> Fedora.

Put something like the following into /etc/fstab

/dev/sda7 /mnt/win98  vfat  noauto,user,gid=windows,umask=007  0 0
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/winxp  ntfs  noauto,user,gid=windows,umask=0222,ro   0 0

Note the differences between the flags for a fat32 and an ntfs filesystem.

Also you'll need to change "sdXY" to <whatever> is your fat32 partition,
and if you're panning on using an NTFS partition, you'll need the kernel
module ... I think there's one prebuilt at ATrpms, or is it Dag's repo?

Then you can just right-click on the desktop -> disks -> win98 to mount
the drive, then double-click on the new icons on the desktop to launch a
nautilus window in that dir.

Also you'll find life easier if you run redhat-config-users, add a new
group "windows" and make yourself a member of that group. You'll probably
need to "init 3" and "startx" again for this to take effect.

Regards,

-
K.