[S.u.S.E. Linux] Mount Fat32 Partitions
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) with suse patches already installed. I have tried patching the kernel myself but I cant seem to get it to work. Can someone PLEASE explain how I can do it... PROPERLY??? Cheers Stephen Brennan - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
Stephen Brennan wrote:
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) with suse patches already installed. I have tried patching the kernel myself but I cant seem to get it to work. Can someone PLEASE explain how I can do it... PROPERLY???
Yes, and it's so easy it's sickening. go to yast; adjustments of installation; set target partitions/filesystems. Then mount the drive as /whatever (just as long as 'whatever' isn't an existing directory under root). for the type of partition, select vfat. reboot, and it's there. -- Aaron Seelye <A HREF="http://revolution.3-cities.com/~roberto"><A HREF="http://revolution.3-cities.com/~roberto</A">http://revolution.3-cities.com/~roberto - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
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
Unless there are some new SuSE patches (and I havn't looked...) you should NOT patch the 2.0.34 kernel. The SuSE kernel was 2.0.33 with some of the patches that ultimatly went into 2.0.34... so you'd be trying to install an already installed patch.. so to speak. On 25-Jun-98 Stephen Brennan wrote:
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) with suse patches already installed. I have tried patching the kernel myself but I cant seem to get it to work. Can someone PLEASE explain how I can do it... PROPERLY???
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