On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 06:54, malik malik wrote: > you can not view the fstab file in /etc. > > you can directly open it by run the following cmd, > > gedit /etc/fstab > > > > malik. > > Marc <contactium@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > First sorry for my english. > It's my first installation of the Core 2. > I have a problem because I cannot mount a partition on my > second hard > disk. > When I make a mount /dev/hdb7 (or other) the answer is... > mount: cannot > locate /dev/hdb7 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab > When I look in /etc it does not have there a fstab or mtab. > > Thank you for your answers. > > Marc. > Malik, Why exactly can you not view the /etc/fstab? $ ls -la /etc/fstab -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1394 Aug 18 03:46 /etc/fstab The default permissions say you can. Mike.