Re: Mount Drives

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On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 00:17, Keith G. Robertson-Turner wrote:
> Put something like the following into /etc/fstab
> 
> /dev/sda7 /mnt/win98  vfat  noauto,user,gid=windows,umask=007  0 0
> /dev/sdb1 /mnt/winxp  ntfs  noauto,user,gid=windows,umask=0222,ro   0 0

You mean /dev/hda7 ..etc
The gid tip is very cool by the way, I've been using uid/gid=500,
applying to my user only. I like to add noexec as an option to windows
drives. Call it paranoia..

> Note the differences between the flags for a fat32 and an ntfs filesystem.
> 
> Also you'll need to change "sdXY" to <whatever> is your fat32 partition,
> and if you're panning on using an NTFS partition, you'll need the kernel
> module ... I think there's one prebuilt at ATrpms, or is it Dag's repo?

http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/fedora1.html

> Then you can just right-click on the desktop -> disks -> win98 to mount
> the drive, then double-click on the new icons on the desktop to launch a
> nautilus window in that dir.
> 
> Also you'll find life easier if you run redhat-config-users, add a new
> group "windows" and make yourself a member of that group. You'll probably
> need to "init 3" and "startx" again for this to take effect.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -
> K.
> 




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