> If you want it mounted at system boot time, I can think of two reasons > right away why it won't happen. Except for the root partition, > partitions are mounted in the order in which they appear in fstab. So > for instance, if /home is a separate partition and it gets mounted after > your fat32 partition gets mounted, it won't work. Also, any partition > specified with option "noauto" will not get mounted during boot. Using > the "defaults" option does imply "auto". /home is on the boot partition, command is specified auto, so this should not be the problem. > > If it's none of the above, have you tried looking > through /var/log/messages to see if any errors are showing up during > mounting partitions? I tracked down messages for mount commands for the CDRW and floppy, which are on subsequent lines of the fstab, but it appears that my mount command is not getting executed. I will investigate this further. > > By the way, while this is related to the original question, I noticed > that you essentially hijacked an existing thread to ask a different > question. Oh, okay sorry, I hadn't clocked that this was bad etiquette.
