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Re: windows partition not usable



On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 09:01:55AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> 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*.

Ooops, sorry, that's 'mkdir /mnt/win'. I should not post before my 
coffee ;)

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

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