mounting partitions on boot

[icy_oblivion]

I am running Red Hat 7.2 and Win XP Pro on a dual boot machine. I know how to mount my windows partition in Red Hat I would just like to have it do it automatically on boot. Could someone let me know how?

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

 

[Stick_e_Mouse]

As root, you need to edit your fstab located in /etc/ so that it auto-mounts. Yours should look something like this:
<pre>/dev/hda1 /windows/windows_c vfat defaults,user,noauto</pre><p>You need to change the "noauto" to just "auto", reboot and that partition should now be automatically mounted.




Disregard my previous post.

 

[poorboy]

Does WinXP Pro use NTFS? If so, it might need to say ntfs instead of vfat, and have the ro (read only) option set.

<i>Do I look like I care?</i>

 

[Stick_e_Mouse]

XP uses either or, like NT/2000, depends upon the user.

Disregard my previous post.

 

[Stick_e_Mouse]

yeah, listen to what poorboy said...if it's NTFS, you'd only want to make the partition read-only because writing to NTFS is just too dangerous (but you'd have to recompile the kernel so that wouldn't be a problem anyway).

Disregard my previous post.

 

[icy_oblivion]

I'll remember to set it as read only. Don't want my computer going crazy on me because of one little mistake.

I crossed the line into insanity so long ago I no longer have any idea which way to go to get further from the line.

 

[ejsmith2]

I don't even give Linux access to my NTFS partition. I have a FAT32 partition that I use as a go-between OS's.



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[icy_oblivion]

I was to partition my drive with a FAT 32 system shared between the OSes would I be able to partition it and change the disk format using Partition Magic 7, or would my files be deleted in the repartitioning and changing the format?


I crossed the line into insanity so long ago I no longer have any idea which way to go to get further from the line.

 

[ejsmith2]

You know how like, if you shove a 500uF capicator in a 110v socket, then walk into the men's room and throw it into one of the urinals that is being used...people all of a sudden want you dead?

Partitioning is the urinal, and the capicator is partition conversion.

Don't throw that in there!!!!!!!!!!

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[icy_oblivion]

I like that imagery and I get the point.

I crossed the line into insanity so long ago I no longer have any idea which way to go to get further from the line.

 

[icy_oblivion]

Lucky for me I noticed that I never converted my file structure format when I upgraded to XP. I am still running FAT32!!

I crossed the line into insanity so long ago I no longer have any idea which way to go to get further from the line.