Partition mounting and access help

[pwjohnston]

Ok so I'm a FC newb and it should be very obvious by this post. I have FC6 running on my machine at home and some how I screwed up access to my /mnt directory.

So my first question

I use windows and I tend to install a minimum of 3 partitions on all computers by habit, one for the OS, one for the swap, and one for the data. The idea being that if I screw up the OS I just wipe it and I don't lose but just the OS partition.

So in my FC box I have an 80 gig divided into:

/dev/hda1 - FC6 20 Gb
/dev/hda2 - Swap 1Gb
/dev/hda3 - Data 20 Gb( this is the one I've been trying to mount. )

I use GParted for all my partitioning. Everyone says linux reads fat32 no prob, and Knoppix usually mounts it for me when I boot to it on others computers.

So anyway I'm trolling around the net to try and find how to remount the partition cause I never got it mounted correctly and I find this site. Which tells me to run this command:

mount /dev/hda3 /mnt -t vfat -o umask=777

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I can copy the file into my FAT32 partition, but before doing that I need to mount my FAT32 partition. My FAT32 partition is /dev/hda6. So the command will be mount /dev/hda6 /mnt -t vfat -o umask=777. Now I can copy the file . . . . . . .
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http://www.programmersheaven.com/2/W...-Fedora-Core-4

So now after running that command I get a message sayign I don't have the right permission to access and cannot access my /mnt folder, even if I log into the GUI as root. (Yes, I fall back on the gui when things go wrong, but I'm trying to learn the command line)

So I did more digging and found people talking about modifying the /etc/fstab. So I thought I should try that and added a line

/dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3 vfat defaults 0 0

no luck.

Second question, can someone point me to some easy to understand instructions on mounting partitions. I've done some reading but obviously I'm not finding the right instructions for doing this.

[Seve]

Hello:
I'm not sure what you have tried / done so I'll go throough some of the basics and then point you to some further documentation.
Open a terminal and log in as root using
su -
yourpassword
then type
fdisk -l
this will show the actual drives/partitions/filesystems etc.
just to confirm everytihing
Then, you need to make a mount point for your /dev/hda3 partition
from the same open terminal type
mkdir /mnt/drive1
then to mount the drive
from the same open window
mount -t vfat /dev/hda3 /mnt/drive1
the partition should now be mounted.
To have is mount at boot time you need to add a line to your /etc/fstab file
once again, from the same open terminal type
gedit /etc/fstab
and add
/dev/hda3 /mnt/drive1 vfat auto,umask=000 0 0

Save, exit and reboot and give it a whirl.

You can read more about the mount options available and what they mean by type man mount and for the entry in your /etc/fstab file man fstab.
There is also a very nice how-to located here which you may find helpful. http://forum.fedoraforum.org/showthr...ighlight=Mount


Seve

[markkuk]

Originally Posted by pwjohnston

Which tells me to run this command:

mount /dev/hda3 /mnt -t vfat -o umask=777

The umask option is used to mask out protection bits when mounting Windows filesystems, i.e. it defines which rights are not set. Umask=777 removes all rights for all users, so anything you try to do will fail. Try umask=000 instead.

[Zero-Override]

Originally Posted by markkuk

The umask option is used to mask out protection bits when mounting Windows filesystems, i.e. it defines which rights are not set. Umask=777 removes all rights for all users, so anything you try to do will fail. Try umask=000 instead.

i don't have mounting problems (had one a week ago but i fixed it myself mhuahahaha ) but this is real handy info