On November 16, 2003 03:04 pm, Roger Beever wrote: > I'm fairly new at this so please have a giggle if you want to. > I have spent a few hours with the manual but either I did not catch a > vital point or the manual is in error. The examples are never the one > that fits what you actually want to do are they ;-) > When I installed my RHEL 3 system last week I made a 2 gig vfat partiton > but it does not appear to be mounting when I boot the system. df does > not list it for example. > The machine is dual boot with all the Linux on a new drive plus some > added windoz space on the rest of the drive (left as free space and > added after the Linux install as I wanted that to be ntfs). > Fdisk (p option) shows the partition is still there and I have added a > test text file from windoze which wrote to it OK. > Given the partition I want to mount is hdb3 and the mount point I gave > it was /win how do I go about geting it to mount. > > Assume if you like that the /win may have not worked and start from a > partition hdb3 with no point point and take it from there if is easier. > Thanks in advance > Regards Roger Hi, use: mount -t vfat /dev/hdb3 /win Once you can mount it properly, you'll want to add an entry to /etc/fstab to it mounts when you boot, or so you can just issue 'mount /win' to mount it. -- Pete Nesbitt, rhce -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
