Tim Gardner OP wrote: > Is there a good HOWTO available for the new FC3 all-singing, all- > dancing /etc/fstab (with HAL)? I want to mount /dev/hda1 at boot > (that's my Windows vfat volume on a dual boot system). I tried copying > the entry for the CDROM and when I did a > > # mount -a > > there it was. But after I rebooted it had disappeared from /etc/fstab To be honest, you *don't* want to do this with HAL: this is going to be permanent. It's much easier to do it the boring, old-fashioned, static way. The word "noauto" in the options will stop it being mounted at boot. This line works for me: /dev/hda11 /media/data vfat defaults,gid=501,dmask=2,fmask=113 0 0 and the only thing I did to change it for FC3 was to change the mountpoint from /mnt/data (and I'm still forgetting that I've moved it! Arrgh!) 501 should be the GID of a group allowed to write to the disk. Hope this helps, James. -- E-mail address: james | My friend, you would not tell with such high zest @westexe.demon.co.uk | To children ardent for some desperate glory, | The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est | Pro patria mori. -- Wilfred Owen