Mount Drives

Youssef Makki bugzilla at sympatico.ca
Tue Mar 2 05:58:47 UTC 2004


On a side note, I'm _still_ getting those annoying replies from
Administrator at leds.com everytime I post.. I hope this is figured out
soon.

On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 00:42, Youssef Makki wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 00:17, Keith G. Robertson-Turner wrote:
> > 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
> 
> You mean /dev/hda7 ..etc
> The gid tip is very cool by the way, I've been using uid/gid=500,
> applying to my user only. I like to add noexec as an option to windows
> drives. Call it paranoia..
> 
> > 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?
> 
> http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/fedora1.html
> 
> > 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.
> > 





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