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From: Wade Brown <wanderer.wcb@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't mount a fat32 partition
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 22:58:01
Message-Id: cee44eb3050713154953a9da6f@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't mount a fat32 partition by Colin
1 That doesn't seem to address the issue as mounting by hand still spits
2 out errors relative to partition problems. What's the output of
3 "fdisk -l /dev/hda"?
4
5 On 7/13/05, Colin <signofzeta@×××××.com> wrote:
6 > aabb wrote:
7 >
8 > >Hi,
9 > >
10 > >Here's a strange one...
11 > >
12 > >I use 2 partitions for Windows 98, hda1 and hda5. I set both up as type
13 > >"c" (fat32 LBA) during my gentoo installation, using fdisk. The entries
14 > >in /etc/fstab are almost identical:
15 > >
16 > >/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat umask=0,noexec 0 0
17 > >/dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat umask=0,noexec 0 0
18 > >
19 > Any of the mask entries correspond to octal permission; therefore, they
20 > need to be three-digit numbers. I recommend 022 (rwxr-xr-x), but I
21 > assume you want 000 (rwxrwxrwx). Don't forget to set uid and gid or
22 > else only root will have access to the files!
23 >
24 > --
25 > Colin
26 >
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30 >
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