Automounting FAT partition

Johann De Freitas jdefreitas at gmail.com
Fri Nov 12 10:04:39 UTC 2004


On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 11:55:42AM -0400, Johann De Freitas said
> I have added my FAT data partition(shared with multiple distros and
> Win2k install) to the fstab so it automounts on booting. That works
> without a hitch. However if I logout the user and log back in the
> mount is lost ie unmounted but not remounted. I run multiple distros
> and have never come across this particular problem.
>
> Is there something else I need to do in Ubuntu?

>Does it disappear from the output of "mount"?  Can you show >us the exact
>fstab line you're using?

-rob

Yes it disappears from mount output.
Here is the fstab line : /dev/hda8 /mnt/data vfat
auto,users,exec,umask=000,uid=johann,gid=users 0 0

-johann




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