Not mounting disk in fstab

peque · 2006-12-12 08:44:53

Hey Forum.

I have a Laptop with dual system on (Windows XP and Arch)
In the middle I have made a disk on 10GB to share docs between the OS.
in fstab I have the following line:
/dev/sda2 /mnt/mobilepeople vfat rw,user,noauto,umask=022 0 1

But when I start the system - the disk is not mountet ad the other in there are ???
Could it be something about updating the system to new kernel / udev or anything like that???
I cannot find anything about the disk in dmesg or anywhere else ???

Acid7711 · 2006-12-12 09:06:12

Try this. These are my settings. See if they work for you

/dev/sda2 /mnt/mobilepeople vfat  defaults,users,umask=000

However, if the disk isn't mounted at all, it leads me to believe there are other problems here other than an fstab entry.

What happens when you try to manually mount the partition?

tomk · 2006-12-12 09:15:58

Read man fstab, and see what it says about the 'noauto' option.

peque · 2006-12-12 09:19:53

If I mount the disk manually - it been mounted in the rigth dir.
I can read the files etc - but have not write access to none of the files

noriko · 2006-12-12 09:30:46

i dunno what ur originl intention was for use of the disk, (ref~umask:022), but it seems an ok setup, it will not mount automatically however,
because u have instructed it not to do so.
=> noauto; you should maybe change it to auto.

on the issue, of not begin able to read/write (only as user, i assume);
u may consider changing the write permissions on the dir, before mounting the device.

btw, u should be able to get a writable mount with...

/dev/sda2 /mnt/mobilepeople vfat defaults,users 0 1

peque · 2006-12-12 09:39:32

Well - its just me and my noncorrect ways of understanding the things.

The meaning with this disk is not should use USB or anything else while switching between OS.

Changing the umask=000 gives writeaccess.

Thanks for the help
Great
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peque · 2006-12-12 10:16:16

Well still having some problems about the disk.
Some of the documents that I have on the disk is written in OpenOffice - and when I open one of these, make some changes and afterwards wants to save the document - openoffice freezes totally??
I have been able to move some of the latest dokuments over to the disk. so Have write access to it.
Under properties for the files its 777 - so do not quite understand what the problem is - does anybody have a clue about this ???

T-Dawg · 2006-12-12 11:52:29

trying giving umask all of its octets:

umask=0000

Arch Linux

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Not mounting disk in fstab

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