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Hi! Trying to kill the keyboard, roberto@cbvcp.com produced:
I have S.u.S.e 5.2 and I really would like to be able to mount a friends Fat32 partition when he comes round. I have the updated kernel (2.0.34)
existing directory under root). for the type of partition, select vfat. reboot, and it's there.
I assume that you are right that vfat will deal with fat32 here ... as root: create a mountpoint (unless always you want to use /mnt), I'll call it FAT32 here. mkdir /FAT32 et permissions (should be automatic, but to be sure) chmod 755 /FAT32 mount the partition: (/dev/whatever is the device, e.g. /dev/sda4 (SCSI-ZIP, primary partition 4 -- that's the default for preformatted ones) mount -tvfat /dev/whatever /FAT32 If you want to make it more permanent (or let users do the mount or ...) just edit /etc/fstab, add a line: /dev/whatever /FAT32 vfat noauto,user 0 0 ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Device mountpoint | don't mount at | (parallel) fsck order | boot, users may | (at boot), 0 = don't | mount it | Filesystem-type dump-frequency (Dump is a backup-program) (for more info, see man fstab) Then any user can mount the drive with mount FAT32 or mount /dev/whatever No need to reboot! -Wolfgang -- PGP 2 welcome: Mail me, subject "send PGP-key". If you've nothing at all to hide, you must be boring. Unsolicited Bulk E-Mails: *You* pay for ads you never wanted. Is our economy _so_ weak we have to tolerate SPAMMERS? I guess not. - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e