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sear

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Registered: 2004-04-24

Posts: 42

mount windows partition automaticly

hey

i would like to mount my windows partition at bootup automaticly into /mnt/windows.
the partition is /dev/hda4.

i think i have to add this into /etc/fstab, but i'm not sure about all the values and so there.

please help me

thanks
sear

DanEE

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From: Fribourg, Switzerland

Registered: 2003-07-10

Posts: 43

Re: mount windows partition automaticly

It depends if the windows filesystem is vfat (win95, win98, winME) or ntfs (win2k or winxp)

here is what I have in my fstab file

/dev/hdb1 /mnt/daten vfat umask=0 0 0
/dev/hdb5 /mnt/datab vfat umask=0 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/winxp ntfs ro,umask=0 0 0

I think they are even automounted itself (you would have to add noauto in fstab if you don't want something to get automounted I think).
But you have to create manually a directory with the name /mnt/winxp (or in your case /mnt/windows) first

I don't know either if /dev/discs/disc0/part1 would be better instead of /dev/hda1...

But at least it works!

dp

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From: Zürich, Switzerland

Registered: 2003-05-27

Posts: 3,378

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Re: mount windows partition automaticly

[damir@Asteraceae /]$ more /etc/fstab | grep WINDATA 
/dev/discs/disc0/part5 /WINDATA vfat rw,users,noauto 0 0

hope that gives you a start ... see also the manpage and the docs :-)

geniali siite über so züügs:
http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Fstab

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