[AuckLUG] mount fat32 ?

[Brian McVicker]

Ronald Johns wrote:
> Hi All,
>       Can anyone give me a few pointers on mounting a vfat (fat32) HDD 
> as hdb ?.
> Fedora C4/5 does not support vfat/ntfs in it's /proc/filesystems and 
> I'v googled my finger to the stub on the subject.
> I seem to remember reading something along the lines of "vfat does not 
> come with FC because of copywrite concerns but....
> And then proceeded to tell you how to solve the problem.
>
> If course I cant find the !@#$%^ site again no matter what.
>
> Help help
>
> Ron.
>
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Hi Ronald,

My installs of Fedora 4 and 5 have all handle vfat without a problem. It 
handles the automounting of cd's etc by itself without reference to the 
/etc/fstab file which threw me at first though.

Mine works fine with just:

/dev/hda1          /mnt/WindowsC          vfat       umask=000      0 0

in the /etc/fstab file. You would likely want to change yours to 
/dev/hdb1 , or the appropriate partition number though.

Haven't had any problems with this running the standard kernel that 
comes with Fedora 5.

Cheers,
Brian