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[alexm@xxxxxxxxxxx (alex medvedev)]

Hi,

# mkdir /dos

-alexm

On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Yatsen Ng wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> Unfortunately I still haven't been able to specify a mount point for my
> Dos partition and believe me, I tried! I actually edited /etc/fstab like
> one of you suggested and added /dos as a mount point but after I did a $
> mount -t vfat /dev/hda2 /dos I got the message "mount point /dos does
> not exist". I'm really curious - why won't this Dos partition show up in
> the current list of filesystems? it sure doesn't make sense to me!
> 
> Tímár Péter wrote:
> > 
> > Yatsen Ng wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi there,
> > >
> > > I recently created a Dos partition /dev/hda2 but I can't specify a mount
> > > point for it. The partition doesn't show up at all in the "current list
> > > of the filesystems on the existing hard drives" in YaST.
> > 
> > Try: mount -t fat /dev/hda2 /mnt
> > It it works, add an entry to the /etc/fstab, and it will work. If the mount
> > doesn't works, I have no idea :(
> > Bye!
> > 
> > --
> >    -o)
> >    /\\ Peter Timar
> >   _\_v dark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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