How to mount a Win2k vfat directory automatically at startup

[kpfuser]

Following advice contained in a Fedora book, I logged in as root and ran the commands

# mkdir /mnt/win2kdata
# chmod 755 /mnt/win2kdata
# mount -t vfat /dev/sda5 /mnt/win2kdata
# chmod 755 /mnt/win2kdata
# ls /mnt/win2kdata

Up to this point all went well and the contents of /dev/sda5 were displayed as expected. Next, in order to have the mount occur automatically at startup, I added the entry

/dev/sda5 mnt/win2kdata vfat 0 0

to /etc/fstab. However, when I restarted logging in as a limited user (i.e., not as root), the /dev/sda5 failed to mount. In case I have to log in as root in order to get /dev/sda5 to mount properly, I must say I do not consider this a viable option. Is there a way to mount /dev/sda5 automatically at startup and make it available to users other than root?

[PabloTwo]

/dev/sda5 mnt/win2kdata vfat 0 0

modify your fstab entry line to this:

/dev/sda5 mnt/win2kdata vfat auto,users 0 0

The 'auto' part should make it auto mounting at bootup. The 'users' part will allow regular users to mount/unmount/access this drive.

Paul

[kpfuser]

It worked! Not smoothly though as it took me an awfully long time to figure out that there wasn't an empty space in the "auto,users" part. Nevertheless, a big thanks goes to Paul!