Auto mount Fat32 drives

[Rezwan Mahbub]

how can I auto mount fat32 drives in fedora core 6. In prevous linux es i had found /dev/hda1 but here i cant find it. how can i locate and mount it thereby please help me out.

[Seve]

Hello:
Open a terminal and log in as root using
su -
yourpassword
then type
fdisk -l
this will identify which partition is formatted in fat32
say it ends up being /dev/hdxn

to mount the drive you first need to make a mount point
mkdir /mnt/fat32
then add the following line to your /etc/fstab file

/dev/hdxn /mnt/fat32 vfat users,defaults,umask=000 0 0

save, exit and reboot and your fat32 partition will be mounted under /mnt/fat32


Seve

[sideways]

find the device by typing (as root)

fdisk -l | grep FAT32

Then add this line to /etc/fstab

/dev/hda1               /mnt/fat32_part         vfat    defaults,rw,umask=0000  0 0

Create the directory /mnt/fat32_part (change permissions on it to 777 if required) and type 'mount -a' to mount it immediately, it will automount on boot

[sideways]

damn, seve got there first!

[Seve]

Hello:

Originally Posted by Rezwan Mahbub

Disk /dev/hdc: 40.0 GB, 40027029504 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4866 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdc1 * 1 974 7823623+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdc2 975 4866 31262490 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdc5 975 1947 7815591 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdc6 1948 2920 7815591 b W95 FAT32
/dev/hdc7 2921 3893 7815591 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdc8 3894 4291 3196903+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/hdc9 4292 4801 4096543+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdc10 4802 4866 522081 82 Linux swap / Solaris

to mount /dev/hdc6
Make sure that you have the directory /mnt/fat32
then
open a terminal and log in as root using
su -
yourpassword
then
mount -t vfat /dev/hdc6 /mnt/fat32

to auto-mount it a boot time
then gedit /etc/fstab
and add the following line
/dev/hdc6 /mnt/fat32 vfat users,defaults,umask=000 0 0
save, exit and reboot


Seve