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mount fat32
Name: mitra Date: July 21, 2002 at 06:48:09 Pacific
Comment:
Hello
I have 5 windows(fat32) partations I set them in linux-conf to be mounted at boot time. at boot time I receive an warning "WARNING FAT32 SUPPORT IS STILL ALPHA" what does it mean? how can I correcet it? --thanks in advance
Fat32 support is definitely not alpha on 2.4. Now ntfs, that could be considered alpha (especially write support). Besides that, the message you posted might be from some other program, not from linux.
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Response Number 4
Name: brando Date: July 21, 2002 at 21:11:31 Pacific
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just go to /etc and edit fstab, that is where you will find all the disks that get mounted at boot. you will have to make a folder for all of the drives to be mounted. so make vfat1, vfat2 .....vfat5 folders in your /mnt directory. then edit fstab and add some thing like this:
/dev/hdf1 /mnt/vfat1 vfat auto,owner 0 0/dev/hdf1
Where hdf1 is the partion and vfat1 is the folder where the stuff goes, and vfat is the type of format. simple good luck
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Response Number 5
Name: brando Date: July 21, 2002 at 21:12:53 Pacific
Summary: Having problems mounting fat32 from RedHat 8.0 Have edited /etc/fstab with the following line: /dev/hda1 /mnt/win2000 fat32 ro,user,umask=000 0 0 and find out when booting that fat32 is not supported...
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Summary: Im having trouble with Redhat 8.0, im trying to mount my shared FAT32 drive, and my fstab entry for it is: /dev/hda5 /mnt/share vfat auto,users,nosuid,rw 0 0 now, everything mounts ok, but only root...
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