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Re: windows partition not usable



On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 10:24:43PM +0000, Hans-Gerhard Schrick wrote:
 
> I have changed my /etc/fstab to vfat [...]

good

> [...] and rmdir the directory win on mnt,

bad. You still need a directory to mount it. Don't change many things at 
once. Do one change, try it out, then another ...
 
> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> #
> # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
> proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
> /dev/hda4       /               reiserfs notail          0       1
> /dev/hda3       none            swap    sw              0       0
> /dev/hdc        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0
> /dev/hda2       /mnt/win        vfat  rw,noauto            0    0

A 'mount /dev/hda2' will very likely complain about the missing 
mountpoint. Just 'makedir /mnt/win' and you should be good to go.  
Otherwise please post *the exact error message*.

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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