Automounting FAT32 Partitions
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Gents, I have two FAT32 partitions on which I store MP3's data etc. Try as I might I cannot get them to automount during startup. I have tried altering fstab to no avail. Even altering the noauto tab to auto fails............PLEASE HELP!!!
Her iare the contents of fstab.
/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,noatime 1 1
/dev/hda2 swap swap sw,pri=1 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devmode=0666 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0622 0 0
none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda3 /home ext3 defaults,noatime 1 2
# Dynamic entries
/dev/hdc1 /mnt/hdc1 vfat noauto,users,exec,umask=000 0 0
/dev/hdc5 /mnt/hdc5 vfat noauto,users,exec,umask=000 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,users,dev,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 noauto,users,dev,ro 0 0
/dev/floppy /mnt/floppy vfat,ext2,hfsplus noauto,users,dev 0 0
Teejay
Automounting FAT32 Partitions
Posts: 14
Adrian, thanks a lot !! It worked fine...... Dunno why but never even considered what the Dynamic Entries were?? FSTAB is now ok and all is mounting as normal. Strange why Mepis doesn't automount partitions anyway. It seems that most distros now do.
Thanks again
Teejay
UK
Dynamic Entries line
Posts: 1296
I believe that anything below the dynamic entries line will get rewritten everytime you reboot, that is why if you want to keep the same fstab settings for certain partitions to stay after rebooting, you need to move those partitions above the dynamic entries line.
Just one idea, you can try to
Posts: 4077
Just one idea, you can try to put these lines:
/dev/hdc1 /mnt/hdc1 vfat auto,users,exec,umask=000 0 0
/dev/hdc5 /mnt/hdc5 vfat auto,users,exec,umask=000 0 0
above the "# Dynamic entries". I noticed that what's below gets overwritten.