Fat32 automount problem

[buntz]

Greetings,

I just got a new drive and formated it as fat32 so i can write cross platform if I get the urge. I type

mount -t vfat /dev/hdb5 /mnt/media

in the terminal window and eveything works out good.

But when I edit my fstab file to automount with the line

/dev/hdb5 /mnt/media vfat umask=0002,nls=utf8

I get an error when my system boots telling me that there is a problem with the mounting process (not verbatim, how do i find the boot log, btw?).

What am I screwing up here?

[Seve]

Originally Posted by buntz

Greetings,

I just got a new drive and formated it as fat32 so i can write cross platform if I get the urge. I type

mount -t vfat /dev/hdb5 /mnt/media

in the terminal window and eveything works out good.

But when I edit my fstab file to automount with the line

/dev/hdb5 /mnt/media vfat umask=0002,nls=utf8

I get an error when my system boots telling me that there is a problem with the mounting process (not verbatim, how do i find the boot log, btw?).

What am I screwing up here?

Hello:
I think you should be able to see the error in your dmesg file.
dmesg | grep mount
dmesg | grep fstab
etc.
or cat /var/log/dmesg

Please try adding this line to your fstab, you can comment out your other entry, in case the one below does not work for you.

/dev/hdb5 /mnt/media vfat users,defaults,umask=000 0 0

it should work
Seve

[buntz]

Thanks,

That fixed the problem. I'm still not familar enough with Fedora to know what those arguments mean so I just copied that line from some other post. Is there some resource that I would be able to reference when putting in system commands like that?

Tony

[Seve]

Originally Posted by buntz

Thanks,
Is there some resource that I would be able to reference when putting in system commands like that?

Tony

Hello:
Yes, however, you may need to spend some time sorting through the terminology and format etc.
With the above entry for your fstab to automount your fat32 drive you would need to reference at least two documents as it involves the mount command and fstab.
With your installation of FC5 there is documentation that can be called up by just opening a terminal and type man fstab or man mount for example.
It is easier for most people, I think, to look at them on-line [google Linux man pages], for example you can read about the mount command here :http://linux.ctyme.com/man/man1762.htm
and fstab here : http://linux.ctyme.com/man/man0831.htm
You will see that each field has a description etc. and might reference other items that you may have to investigate further.
There are also some very good books out there as well. If you search the forum here, there was a thread not too long ago with some good recommendations.
hth
Seve