Forgot to Mount my vfat partitions

ziko · #1 16th February 2008, 06:51 PM

Hello, I have recently installed fedora 7 on Pentium 3 PC It is working so good But i forgot to mount my windows vfat partitions to the / during installation and don't know how to mount them without installing fedora again. My partioion layout is
4700 Mbytes ext3 root
800 Mb swap
90 Mb /boot
3*4800 Mb vfat partitions
I am new to Linux. I also want to ask if it is good to make a separate boot partition and how will it affect me when i want to restore grub again if i installed windows.
Thanks in advance.....

Magnar · #2 16th February 2008, 07:48 PM

To have the FAT partitions mounted at boot, edit the file /etc/fstab. Add new lines at the end, following the syntax of the lines above. You need to create the directories where you want the partitons mounted. Example of a line of fstab:

Code:

/dev/sda2                /mnt/windows            ntfs    defaults        0 0

/dev/sda2 is the device to be mounted to directory /mnt/windows with filesystem NTFS. To find the device names of your partitions, you could do

Code:

$ su -
# fdisk -l

ziko · #3 18th February 2008, 07:49 PM

thanks so much for you Magnar and for this forum
it is working good with me
But i want to ask about a different thing i want to make a link to home folder and put it on the desktop but i can't do it except if i am root and it disappear when i log in with my ordinary user account that is the problem is ordinary user the make link tab in the context menu of the folder is hidden.....Anyone have a solution
thanks for all

Magnar · #4 18th February 2008, 08:19 PM

I'm not sure what you mean by making a link. Don't you get a /home icon on your desktop as default? I did, anyway. However, when you created a link and put it on the desktop as root, then you put it on root's desktop, I guess. You could try copying it from /root/Desktop to your desktop (/home/username/Desktop). To just copy everything from root's desktop, you could do

Code:

su -
cp /root/Desktop/* /home/username/Desktop/

You may also need to give yourself permissions: (still as root)

Code:

chmod /home/username/Desktop/* a+rx

Change "username" to your username, of course.