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  From: Alex Wallis <awol@prepaidonline.com.au>
  To  : linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2003 05:33:05 +1030

Re: Accessing FAT32 partitions

Shahram roohani wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> I tried to access my Windows partition (Win98SE FAT32)
> by adding the following line:
> 
> /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat user,umask=000 0 0
> 
> to my /etc/fstab. But inside Konquerer when I try to
> use Create New Hard Disc using the above mount point I
> get a message box stating that the specified mount
> point does not exist. Also on the next start up, when

The mount point must be some empty directory that you have previously
created for the purpose. Try man mount for details, and man fstab for
other useful information.

To manually mount the partition you would do the following...

mount -t vfat -o user,umask=000 /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c

> trying to automount I get the same message. I changed
> the 'win_c' mount point to my partition's label
> 'WINDOWS' and also tried some other words, but the
> problem still persists. Could anybody help me please,
> with a basic process of mounting to a Windows FAT32
> partition?
> 
> Regards,
> Shahram Roohani

In the above example the command "mkdir /mnt/win_c" should solve your
problems.

HTH

Alex
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