complete newbie help

[davidjk]

i am sure this may have been posted before but i am going to ask anyway.

i have installed redhat and am impressed so far
but i have no idea how to mount my other HD

i have 2 partitions on an ide drive
partition 1 is linux installation
partition 2 is fat 32

drive 2 to 5 are seen as scsi drives

now i would like not just the commands but why they do what they do and how to do them


thank you in advance

[hecresper]

Well, I'm not so impressed with RH because it didn't give you an option to automount the FAT32 partition. When I installed Slackware on my dual-boot computer at home, it recognized the FAT partitions and offered to automount them at boot time for me.

Anyways, the comand to mount any partition, but specifically a FAT partition is this:

mount -t vfat /dev/hdpartitionnumbergoeshere /yourmountpoint

mount is the actual command that takes care of well, mounting partitions, but it specifically mounts filesystems. Partition and filesystem seems to be used interchangebly in the Linux world

-t means the type of filesystem to mount. In this case, a FAT filesystem.

/dev/hdpartitionnumbergoeshere means the actual device name Linux gave to your specific partition during boot time. This changes from system to system. So you have to know which device Linux assigned to your FAT partition.

/yourmountpoint is an actual directory that you have to create before mounting to it. Just use mkdir to create that directory. If you create it under the home folder of the currently logged on user, then you don't have to be logged in as 'root'. If you create it as 'root', this mount point can be created any where you'd like.

Hope this helps a bit. Still you need to know the exact name Linux gave to your FAT partition, tho.

[jetblackz]

Automount might be convenient, but IMHO, it's a security issue. Or even breach in some cases.

The easy way is:
open terminal
su
enter root passwd
pico /etc/fstab
replace "noauto" with "auto"
save & exit

--
/dev/hda1 /mnt/w98 vfat noauto,iochartset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0
--
/dev/hda1 /mnt/w98 vfat auto,iochartset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0
--

But I leave my booting Windows partitions unmounted at all times until I NEED to access it.

mount /mnt/w98

[davidjk]

i tired editing fstab
from some tips if found else where but had no luck

will try these when i get home

thx for your help

i am sure i will get back to you later with help for other stuff