I was wondering if anyone knows how to auto mount a hard drive I am sharing with Windows, its FAT32. Currently I have to do the following everytime I log in. mount -t vfat /dev/hdb5 /mnt/data and I want it to automatically mount it on startup. Any advice would be appreciated. Side note: Another Winmodem Success story. I got my Intel 536ep v92 winmodem to work in Red Hat without flaw!

To mount your windows partition at startup add an entry to your /etc/fstab file. Edit this with user root. The following will give read/write access to root and read-only access to everyone else: /dev/hdb5 /mnt/data vfat defaults 0 0 The following will give read/write access to everyone: /dev/hdb5 /mnt/data vfat defaults,umask=0 0 0 If you ever need NTFS (read-only) support (Windows NT, 2000, or XP) then go to this site to add it: http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/redhat.html Examples for Windows C drive with NTFS filesystem: The following will give read-only access to root and no access to everyone else: /dev/hda1 /mnt/winc ntfs defaults 0 0 The following will give read-only access to everyone: /dev/hda1 /mnt/winc ntfs defaults,umask=222 0 0 IMPORTANT, always leave a blank line at the end of the /etc/fstab file or you will get an error message when you boot up.