Hi To automatically mount devices use the auto flag and not the noauto as suggested below. Don't auto mount devices that have removable disks such as floppies and cdroms. So in that respect the cd and floppy examples below are correct. But as the original question is regarding msdos and vfat partitions on fixed disks the auto flag is the correct one to use for the task. -----Original Message----- From: blinux-list-admin@redhat.com [mailto:blinux-list-admin@redhat.com]On Behalf Of Rafael Sent: 14 December 2001 23:52 To: blinux-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: Mounting Dos Partition on Bootup On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 01:48:28PM -0600, John J. Boyer wrote: > Hello, > I would like to mount my dos and wWindows partition on boot-up, without > having to log in a root to do so. What file needs to be changed? More /etc/fstab file keeps track of partitions and how they get mounted. For example: /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0 automaticaly mounts floppy and /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 mounts CD drive. For DOS partitions you would need to have a mounting point, /mnt/dos for example and have an entry in fstab file /dev/hdb1 /mnt/dos msdos noauto,owner,rw 0 0 > generally, which files control what Linux does on boot-up? That's all under /etc. More specificaly /etc/rc.d and other /etc/rc.* structure. Files that start with capital S are executed during bootup or switch into a particular level, while files with K kill services for that level. /etc/rc?.d is the directory name for level you want to run. In most cases level 3 and level 5 are used. Level 1 is for system maintenance and level 6 for reboot. To switch to different level after boot you run command init. init 3 for level 3. init 6 to reboot. init 0 to shutdown. Files in /etc/rc?.d are links to scripts in /etc/init.d. There is more to this but it should give you an idea what's going on. Unfortunately, RedHat and Linux in general has scripts and network configuration too complicated to quickly follow one script after the other. > Thanks. > John > -- Rafael _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list