On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 00:49, Bradley (FC2 List) wrote: > > On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 00:34, Bradley (FC2 List) wrote: > > > I have a 6 gig IDE drive, secondary master that I would like to use to > share > > > files across OSs. It does not show up in the "Computer" group with > > > filesystem and CD drives. Do I need to edit something to make this show > up? > > > The file system is fat32. I am using FC2 and Gnome. > > > > Could you post your /etc/fstab file? This is what controls what drives > > get "mounted" to what file system > > > > Thanks > > MC > > Thanks for the reply: > > LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults > 1 1 > LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults > 1 2 > none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 > 0 0 > none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults > 0 0 > none /proc proc defaults > 0 0 > none /sys sysfs defaults > 0 0 > /dev/hda3 swap swap defaults > 0 0 > /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 > noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 > /dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 > noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 > /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto > noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0 > > > Thanks Bradley Well the drive is not showing up in fstab, so it is not getting mounted, hence it showing up in Computer. First click on the "Red Hat" then system tools then hardware browser. Type in your root password. Let it find your hardware, and then click on hard drives. Make sure the 6 GB drive is showing up there. If it is great move on. If not, then it is not being detected, boot into the bios and make sure it is detected there. If not check the jumper settings on the drive. If it is then check /var/log/messages for any errors If the drive shows up in the Hardware Browser, which I think it will, then you just have to edit /etc/fstab to have it mounted on boot. Note the name of the drive that is 6GB it should be /dev/hdb or something similar. Add this line to the bottom of the file. /dev/mydrive(hdb1 or 2 or whatever) /mnt/share vfat user,showexec,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 Make sure that you have a /mnt/share directory. It does not have to be expicitly named share, anything will work so long as the file matches the directory. to mount the drive as root type mount --all Let me know if this helps MC
