Fstab driving me crazy

92b16vx · #1 10th August 2005, 03:16 PM

Ok, so I had WindowsXP 64 and it was buggy, so I reinstalled 32 bit Pro again.

This time I fomatted a 20G partition for it, and reformatted the rest, approximately 55G as a FAT32, so I could share files between FC4 and Windows. So I go try to use "rescue linux" and install disc to try to reinstall grub, but to no avail, as I was looking in the wrong place (but that is another story), so I reinstalled. FC4 on MBR everything works fine.

I installed the NTFS support, everything went peachy, now I can see windows, and my external. BUT when I reboot, my Windows entry AND the entry for /dev/hda5 (the FAT32 partition) dissappear from /etc/fstab.

When I use

Code:

/sbin/fdisk -l

I get...

Code:

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1        2549    20474811    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2            2550        9733    57705480    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5            2550        9733    57705448+   b  W95 FAT32

This is my /etc/fstab....

Code:

# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
/dev/devpts             /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
/dev/shm                /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
/dev/proc               /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
/dev/sys                /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
/dev/sdb1               /media/Johns_HDD        ntfs    pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
/dev/sda1               /media/MINIHDD          vfat    pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
/dev/fd0                /media/floppy           auto    pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
/dev/hdd                /media/cdrecorder       auto    pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
/dev/hdc                /media/cdrecorder1      auto    pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0

I am trying to modify it by adding....

Code:

/dev/hda5             /media/data                  FAT32  pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
/dev/hda1             /media/windows           NTFS   pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0

Which gives access....till I reboot.

What do I need to add to the /etc/fstab to get them to mount? I would think they would with the same commands, but I guess not.

Anyway, thanks for reading my long post, and thanks in advance for any suggestions.

daneel971 · #2 10th August 2005, 03:20 PM

Note this line in fstab:

This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details

... and do as it sais

Try creating your mountpoints in the /mnt directory or wherever you want, but NOT in the /media directory.

92b16vx · #3 10th August 2005, 03:27 PM

The manual does have anything that helps. I was doing them to media, snce hte external seemed to work with it, but yea, I am going to try again with auto mounting them to /mnt/folders instead.

92b16vx · #4 10th August 2005, 03:32 PM

I am pretty sure that

Code:

/dev/hda1               /mnt/windows            auto    gid=500,umask=002,noexec,nosuid 0 0

But I am not sure about the FAT32 partition, since it isn't NTFS, and I have never had to mount one before.

daneel971 · #5 10th August 2005, 03:35 PM

I hate all the automount stuff, and I rather manage my device manually. I notice that the mountpoints in /media are dynamically created and deleted by who-knows-what, so if you put a line in fstab which has a mount point in that directory and which refers to a device that FC doesn't automatically mount by defaults (like windows partitions are), it will be wiped away next boot.

daneel971 · #6 10th August 2005, 03:42 PM

It's awhile I don't use these kind of partition, but I think that these should do the job.

/dev/hda1 /mnt/win-so ntfs defaults,umask=133,ro 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/win-data vfat defaults,umask=133,rw 0 0

If they work and you won't find them next boot, you can consider

chattr +i fstab

but in that case you have to manually add the lines for your removable media (and to recreate the mountpoints in /mnt)

linuZman · #7 10th August 2005, 03:54 PM

FYI

During the boot sequence when kudzu runs it will modify /etc/fstab to add the hardware that it found.

I believe this is where most of the entries get created for /media.

92b16vx · #8 10th August 2005, 07:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by daneel971

It's awhile I don't use these kind of partition, but I think that these should do the job.

/dev/hda1 /mnt/win-so ntfs defaults,umask=133,ro 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/win-data vfat defaults,umask=133,rw 0 0

If they work and you won't find them next boot, you can consider

chattr +i fstab

but in that case you have to manually add the lines for your removable media (and to recreate the mountpoints in /mnt)

Thanks, I'll try that