---- Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 16:23 +0000, Steve wrote: > > If I let HAL & friends automagically mount my Windows partition mount reports this: > > > > # mount > > ... > > /dev/sdb1 on /media/disk type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096) > > > > The problem is that I want this partition mounted on /mnt/c_drive not > > /media/disk so I tried to add a line to /etc/fstab as follows: > > > > /dev/sdb1 /mnt/c_drive fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096 > > 0 0 > > > > (I started with a type of fuseblk instead of fuse but that didn't work at all > > and note that fuse is not documented in the mount man page) > > > > but then as root > > # mount /dev/sdb1 > > /bin/sh: /dev/sdb1: Permission denied > > > > # ls -l /dev/sdb1 > > brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 17 2009-01-12 13:24 /dev/sdb1 > > > > It's not a selinux problem because I'm running in permissive mode: > > # sestatus > > SELinux status: enabled > > SELinuxfs mount: /selinux > > Current mode: permissive > > Mode from config file: permissive > > Policy version: 23 > > Policy from config file: targeted > > > > This is on an F8 system and I'm trying to get my backup to work so I can upgrade > > to F9. > > > > What am I doing wrong here? > ---- > perhaps you are just trying to use too much muscle Perhaps I am but personally I don't consider editing /etc/fstab to be heavy lifting. > why not just let it mount like it does and use a bind mount elsewhere... > > mount --bind /media/disk /mnt/c_drive I've no doubt that this will work but there HAS to be a simple way to mount a partition where I want directly. It juts seems so basic. Steve. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
