[olug] fstab and windows partition

[Steve Busby]

On Saturday 10 April 2004 06:47 am, Craig Wolf wrote:
> Ok, I am not sure what I did wrong but I can edit/change things from the
> command line as root but not in X as a user.  Is my fstab setup right?
> /dev/hda5 /mnt/Win_Data vfat rw,users,suid,dev,exec,auto,async 0 0 I
> thought so from reading the man page but I must have missed
> something...TIA!
>
> Craig Wolf
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Craig,

I'm no expert at this by any stretch, but here's what I had to do to get my 
vfat "shared" drive mounted on my dual boot XP/Mdk10 Sony laptop.

/etc/fstab entry

/dev/hda5 /home/buzb/Documents vfat 
uid=buzb,gid=buzb,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0

Originally when I built the box, Mdk mounted the drive under /mnt/win_d or 
some such, I just edited that entry so it was mounted under my home directory 
and gave myself ownership of all files.

Of course I'm the only one who uses this laptop, so if others share your 
system there will be changes.

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BuzB

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